A Covid test center in India on September 7, 2020. -

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The coronavirus pandemic is far from under control around the world.

Europe is experiencing a significant recovery, with in particular the bar of 500,000 cases exceeded in Spain, while India became, on Monday, the second country in the world most affected in number of cases behind the United States and ahead of Brazil .

The second most populous country on the planet with 1.3 billion inhabitants, India is hit hard by the pandemic which has killed more than 880,000 people worldwide since the end of December, according to a count established by AFP from official data.

On Monday, India has totaled 4.2 million infections since the start of the crisis, Brazil 4.12 million and the United States 6.25 million.

For deaths, it arrives with 71,642 dead behind the United States (188,540) and Brazil (126,203) among the three countries most bereaved in the world by the virus.

But many experts believe the actual numbers to be higher in India, arguing that testing is insufficient and death tolls go unrecorded.

This did not prevent the country from reopening, with strict health precautions, the metro which had been stationary for almost six months in its major cities, including the capital New Delhi.

"Ascending phase" in Spain

Spain, a European country among the most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, has exceeded the bar of 500,000 diagnosed cases, according to the latest report published on Monday according to the report of the Ministry of Health.

Since the start of the pandemic, the country of 47 million inhabitants has recorded 525,549 cases, which represents a number of cases reported to its population approximately twice as large as France or Italy, according to a calculation of AFP from official sources.

Over the past two weeks, the country has detected an average of 7 to 8,000 cases per day, of which about a third are in the region of the capital Madrid, epicenter of the epidemic as in the spring.

The number of victims of Covid-19 amounts to a total of 29,516 in the country, including 237 in the last seven days, far from the peak of the pandemic in early April when nearly 1,000 people had died in one day.

"The situation is much more favorable" than in the spring, underlined Monday the chief epidemiologist of the Ministry of Health, Fernando Simon.

“But we remain in an ascending phase,” he warned.

Resurgence in France and the United Kingdom

On Sunday, the United Kingdom recorded nearly 3,000 new positive cases, a number unseen since the end of May.

"The increase we have seen today is worrying," Health Minister Matt Hancock told Sky News, stressing that these new cases are mainly diagnosed in "younger people".

The epidemic is also gaining ground in France with nearly 25,000 new cases in three days, including a peak of 9,000 on Friday.

In Casablanca, Morocco, schools remained closed on Monday to the disappointment of parents and students on this start day.

The epidemiological situation in Morocco, a country of 35 million inhabitants, has been marked by an upsurge in Covid-19 cases since early August.

A total of 72,394 contaminations, including 1,361 deaths, have been recorded since March.

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