Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis:

A daily record of more than 893,000 Covid-19 cases was registered worldwide Saturday, mainly due to a surge of the virus in India, according to an AFP count.

India's daily coronavirus death toll hits a new record Saturday with another 2,624 deaths, as the government battles to get oxygen to hospitals overwhelmed by cases.

These latest deaths take the official toll to nearly 190,000 since the pandemic started.

Swiss health officials say they have detected a first case of the Covid-19 variant contributing to the exploding outbreak in India in a passenger transiting through an airport.

Germany's federal government tightens coronavirus restrictions using new powers that allow it to impose sweeping shutdowns any region with infections over a set threshold.

Germany, Kuwait and Iran are the latest countries to impose restrictions on flights and passengers from India.

Spanish police arrest a man on the island of Mallorca suspected of having infected 22 people after going to work and the gym despite signs he had the virus.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3,088,103 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1000 GMT on Saturday.

Medical staff have administered nearly a billion doses of vaccine against the virus, according to an AFP tally based on official sources Saturday.

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