Paris (AFP)

New reports, new measures and highlights: an update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.

- Trump "positive" -

Donald Trump announced with a tweet, on the night of Thursday to Friday, that he had tested positive for Covid-19, just like his wife Melania.

"We will start our quarantine and the recovery process immediately. We will do it TOGETHER!" Added the 74-year-old US president.

Hours earlier, the White House tenant had confirmed that Hope Hicks, his close advisor, had tested positive.

His foreign minister, Mike Pompeo, said on Friday he tested negative.

- More than 1,024,000 dead -

The pandemic has killed at least 1,024,093 people around the world, according to a report established by AFP from official sources on Friday at 11:00 GMT.

More than 34.3 million cases of infection have been diagnosed.

The United States is the most affected country in terms of both deaths and cases, with 207,816 deaths for 7,279,065 cases.

Brazil (144,680 dead), India (99,773), Mexico (78,078) and the United Kingdom (42,202) follow.

- Lebanon borders -

More than one hundred villages and localities will be confined for a week from Sunday in Lebanon, plagued by daily records of contamination, announced the Interior Ministry.

Shops, public and private institutions will be closed there and residents will have to stay at home except if there is a major need and go out wearing a mask if necessary.

- Madrid rebels -

The Madrid region has announced that it will file a legal action against a government decree that extends to the entire capital the measures already in force for a week in the areas of the region most affected by the virus.

The more than 4.5 million people affected by the contested decree will only be able to leave their town for reasons of first necessity such as going to work, to the doctor or to study, from Friday evening.

However, they will not be confined to their homes.

- AstraZeneca takes over in Japan -

Trials of AstraZeneca's vaccine candidate have resumed in Japan but not yet in the United States where the pharmaceutical giant says it is working with the drug authority.

The vaccine developed by the British group and the University of Oxford is one of the most advanced Western projects, tested on tens of thousands of volunteers around the world.

A serious incident on a participant in the trials led to a brief stoppage of the trials.

- Spain: tourism at half mast -

Spain, the second largest tourist destination in the world, saw the number of foreign tourists plummet by 76% in August over one year, after an equally disastrous month of July (-75%), according to data from the National Institute of statistics (INE).

Only 2.4 million foreign tourists visited Spain in August, a month marked by an acceleration in the appearance of new cases of Covid-19 in a country where tourism accounts for 12% of GDP.

- "Scarlet" threat to Paris -

Paris could spend Monday on maximum alert.

The French capital and its inner suburbs could face further restrictions if the progression of the epidemic is confirmed there, French Minister of Health Olivier Véran said on Thursday.

Such a classification "will suppose that the inhabitants of Paris and the inner suburbs temporarily reduce their social interactions in a drastic way, in any case more important than what they already do: more family celebrations, more parties, total closure of bars, "he said.

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