France has imposed wearing masks in a number of its cities due to the high number of infections with the Coronavirus, and while the toll is worsening in Brazil and other countries such as India, Algeria has eased the restrictions it had previously imposed due to the outbreak of the epidemic.

Today, Saturday, the Paris authorities said in a statement that wearing a muzzle in open areas will be mandatory in crowded neighborhoods in the capital, starting from Monday, in light of the increasing number of cases of corona there.

She added that wearing masks applies to everyone aged 11 years and over, and stated that all indications prove that since mid-July the virus has started to spread again in a more active manner.

The authorities imposed the same procedure, starting today, in parts of the city of Marseille (south), which in turn include densely populated areas, and it was decided to impose masks also in the Riviera resort of the tourist city of Saint-Trope.

On Friday, France recorded more than two thousand injuries, the highest daily toll since last May, which brings the total to 198,000 injuries, including 30,000 deaths.

In Europe, too, the authorities in Spain added the city of Aranda de Duero - which has 32,000 inhabitants, and is located 150 km north of Madrid - to the list of regions in which it imposes a local stone and includes the Basque Country and Catalonia in addition to Aragon.

As for Italy, today it recorded 347 new infections after it recorded 522 injuries yesterday, and officials called on citizens to vigil, amid fears of second waves of the epidemic, at a time when Spain, France and Germany are recording injuries at a rate of a thousand injuries per day.

In Britain, which recently imposed restrictions on cities and towns in northern England after the increase in infections with the Corona virus, hundreds of health workers demonstrated today, calling on the government of Boris Johnson to recognize their efforts in combating the Corona epidemic.

Injuries by the millions
In Brazil - which is the second largest affected by the epidemic after the United States - the death toll from Corona is close to 3 million and deaths from 100,000 deaths.

In the past 24 hours, Brazil has recorded more than a thousand deaths, and 50 thousand new cases of the virus.

Coronavirus patient receives care in a hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Reuters)

And Latin America and the Caribbean - in which Brazil is located - has become the world most affected by the Coronavirus in terms of the number of deaths, with 215,000 deaths, surpassing Europe, where new quarantine measures and travel restrictions are increasing.

In the same region, injuries and deaths are increasing in Mexico, Chile and Peru.

The total number of injuries in India jumped to two million and 215 thousand, after more than 42 thousand new infections and more than 900 deaths were recorded.

Also in Asia, it was announced that 17 people who had participated in the Loya Jirga meeting in Afghanistan, which was held to discuss the peace process between the Kabul government and the Taliban, were confirmed to have been infected.

In Africa, the death toll has exceeded one million infections and is concentrated in 5 countries, and South Africa is among the most affected in the continent by the virus, as it was recently recording infections at a rate of 10 thousand infections per day.

Worldwide, the total number of injuries exceeded 19 million and 700 thousand injuries, and deaths 727 thousand deaths, while the number of people recovered approached 12 million and 640 thousand.

The
Arab easing of restrictions , today in Algeria announced the reduction of home quarantine hours from 9 to 31 of this month, while allowing movement throughout the national territory, and the reopening of restaurants, hotels, mosques and beaches.

The decision includes suspending the ban on private car travel between 29 states that are still subject to a night curfew.

Days ago, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune took a decision to ease the restrictions imposed to confront the Corona virus, including the gradual opening of mosques closed for 5 months.

During the past 24 hours, Algeria has recorded 11 new deaths from the Coronavirus, an increase of two from the previous day, bringing the total number of deaths to 1293 deaths, in addition to more than 500 infections.

For his part, Iraq today recorded 74 new deaths due to the Corona virus, in addition to more than 3,300 HIV infections, bringing the total to more than 147,000 infections.

As for Tunisia, it has been recording local infections a few days ago, which raised fears of a second wave of the Corona epidemic.