France has a new record of contaminations with nearly 13,500 new cases.
In addition, 26 additional deaths were recorded in 24 hours according to the latest report published on Saturday.
New restrictive measures were taken in Indre-et-Loire after the entry into force of those in Nice.
Faced with the increase in contamination, several countries are toughening their measures.
Across the Atlantic, Trump promises that all Americans will have access to a vaccine from April.
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The health situation remains tense in France where 31,274 people have died after contracting Covid-19.
Nearly 13,500 additional contaminations - a new record - were recorded in 24 hours, according to the report published on Saturday by Public Health France.
In addition, 73 new patients entered intensive care, bringing the total number of occupied beds to 593. Faced with this rebound in the pandemic, a series of binding measures were announced on Friday for the city of Nice, but also in Indre-et-Loire where "dancing evenings and parties organized by student communities", among others, will be banned from Monday.
Around the world, the coronavirus continues to spread, especially in Europe.
Spain has thus decided to reconfigure its population locally in the Madrid region, and the British government is not ruling out resorting to a new general containment.
The general reconfinement also entered into force Friday in Israel, facing a second wave.
The information to remember:
In France, the latest report shows 26 deaths and nearly 13,500 contaminations in 24 hours
20% of intensive care beds are occupied by coronavirus patients in Île-de-France, according to ARS
New restrictive measures in Indre-et-Loire
In France, rise in contamination and positivity rate
After a clear deterioration revealed by Friday's report which reported 123 additional deaths, the report published on Saturday shows 26 additional deaths due to the coronavirus.
But the new contaminations, they are always more numerous with 13,498 cases in 24 hours.
In total, there have been 31,274 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
470 new patients were hospitalized and 73 people entered intensive care or intensive care in the last 24 hours.
The positivity rate (proportion of the number of positive people compared to the total number of people tested) increased for the first time in ten days, rising to 5.6%.
In intensive care, Professor Djillali Annane, head of the intensive medicine and resuscitation service at the Poincaré hospital in Garches, even evokes "a delicate situation until March, or even May 2021" and affirms that it will be "complicated to manage again such a situation ".
"We note an acceleration of serious cases, almost all of the patients who are admitted for Covid are intubated and in an artificial coma", he continues at the microphone of Europe 1.
Results soon to be accelerated in Île-de-France?
Guest of the morning of Europe 1, Saturday, the director of the ARS Île-de-France, Aurélien Rousseau, assured that the region will be able to provide the results of the Covid-19 screening tests to "priority" people in 24 hours, thanks to 20 new centers open from Monday morning.
He also indicated that the number of Covid-19 patients was increasing every day in Île-de-France.
Currently, more than 2,300 patients are treated at the hospital, including 263 in intensive care, or 20% of intensive care beds.
"We must react quickly, because we will not be able to empty the resuscitations as we did the last time. We will no longer be able to postpone operations," concluded Aurélien Rousseau.
Student evenings, refreshments and wines of honor prohibited in Indre-et-Loire
"The classification of Indre-et-Loire in an area of active circulation of the so-called 'red' virus implies new health protection measures", explained the prefecture of the department on Saturday.
From Monday will therefore be prohibited "dancing evenings and evenings organized by student communities", "refreshments, aperitifs, wines of honor, cocktails, snacks and 'drinks' with static consumption while standing", "refreshments in enclosed spaces without seated reception "as well as" shared consumption (boards, snacking, etc.) ".
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More than 953,000 deaths worldwide, increased contamination
The pandemic accelerated markedly this week, with 286,000 new cases recorded per day worldwide, 8% more than the previous week.
As in recent weeks, it is in Europe that the rate of contamination is accelerating the most (+ 16% compared to the previous week).
The number of new daily cases there has tripled since the beginning of July (47,300 this week, against about 15,000).
More than 30 million cases of the new coronavirus have been officially recorded worldwide, according to a count made by AFP.
In total, at least 30,556,040 cases, including 953,025 deaths, have been reported.
The United States remains the most bereaved country with at least 199,255 dead.
Next come Brazil (136,532 dead), India (85,619), Mexico (72,803) and the United Kingdom (41,732).
India is the country that has recorded the most deaths in the past week (more than 1,000 per day), ahead of the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Iran.
Trump promises enough vaccines for all Americans by April
US President Donald Trump pledged on Friday that 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine would be manufactured before the end of the year, and enough to vaccinate 330 million Americans by April 2021. "We will have manufactured at least 100 million doses by the end of the year, and then probably many more, hundreds of millions of doses will be available each month, and we will have enough vaccines for all Americans by April, "he said. he said at a White House press conference, reiterating his optimism about the outcome of ongoing clinical trials of experimental vaccines.
He did not specify which manufacturers would be able to deliver those volumes, but two companies, Moderna and Pfizer, are in active phase 3 clinical trials of their investigational vaccines, the first awaiting results in November, the second in October.
The date of availability of an American vaccine is an issue of the campaign for the presidential election on November 3, the Democratic candidate Joe Biden having said he does not trust Donald Trump to guarantee the integrity of the scientific approval process.
Moncef Slaoui, senior officer of Operation Warp Speed in charge of vaccines, told NPR radio on September 3 that he expected a volume of doses sufficient to vaccinate between 20 and 25 million people by the end of the year.
And Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) director Robert Redfield said this week that the vaccine would likely not be available to the majority of Americans until the second or third quarter of 2021.