India's caseload has soared from three to four million in just 13 days, faster than the US and Brazil.
India has become the third country to pass four million coronavirus infections, setting a new record daily surge in cases on Saturday as the pandemic showed no sign of peaking.
As governments around the world enforce measures to slow the virus, police in Australia - which has reported 26,200 cases and 748 deaths - arrested more than a dozen protesters in Melbourne on Saturday for deliberately flouting the city's stay-at-home orders.Dozens arrested in Melbourne and NSW as hundreds protest coronavirus lockdowns across Australia
India has eased restrictions in a bid to revive the economy but faces the world's fastest growing number of cases at more than 80,000 a day and the highest daily death toll at more than 1,000. The death toll now stands at 69,561. An Iranian elementary school girl wearing a face mask passes by a disinfection tunnel as she attends the first day of reopening the Bamdad Parsi private schoolPresident Hassan Rouhani appeared in a video to inaugurate the new academic year at a school - a break with tradition that drew criticism.
According to the Iraqi health ministry, 5,036 new coronavirus infections were confirmed on Friday, bringing the total number of cases across the country to 252,075, of which 191,368 had recovered, but 7,359 had died.
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