South Korea reports its highest single-day total in months, making lockdown-like restrictions look inevitable as transmissions slip out of control, while high profile Manchester United player Paul Pogba tests positive for COVID-19.
Health workers have struggled to track infections linked to various sources including churches and restaurants.
Health officials have described the outbreak over the past two weeks as the country's biggest crisis since the emergence of COVID-19. In an email to the Associated Press, WHO's representative to North Korea Edwin Salvador said the country is currently monitoring 1,004 citizens placed under quarantine.
France is to order the mandatory wearing of face masks across Paris to curb a surging rate of coronavirus infections, Prime Minister Jean Castex said, warning that the outbreak could spiral out of control if swift action is not taken. Mr Castex, who oversaw France's emergence from lockdown before his appointment as premier in July, said scientific advisers warn of a second wave hitting in the autumn.
With an average of more than 800,000 tests every day, India has scaled up testing per million to more than 27,000, the Ministry said.India has reported the third most cases in the world after the United States and Brazil, and its reported fatalities are the fourth-highest in the world.China-based drugmaker BeiGene Ltd said that an early-stage human study to test its COVID-19 antibody treatment will begin in September.
Antibody therapies use antibodies generated by infected humans or animals to fight the disease in patients.
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