Over 28.73 million cases of coronavirus have been reported globally and 921,115 have died as of Saturday night, according to a worldometer tally.
Infections have been reported in over 210 countries since it was first detected in China in December 2019, report agencies.
The United States is the worst-affected country followed by India and Brazil. Coronavirus cases in the US rose by at least 47,015 to touch 6.46 million on Saturday, according to a Reuters tally.
And India reported 97,570 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours ending 8:00 am on Saturday.
With this, the total tally went past 4.6 million to reach 46,59,985. Also, as many as 1,201 deaths reported during the same period pushed the death toll to 77,472.
At present, the country has 9,58,316 active cases and 36,24,197 people who have been treated and discharged.
Meanwhile, AstraZeneca has resumed British clinical trials of its Covid-19 vaccine, one of the most advanced in development, after receiving the green light from safety watchdogs, the company said on Saturday.
The late-stage trials of the experimental vaccine, developed with researchers from the University of Oxford, were suspended this week after an illness in a study subject in Britain, casting doubts on an early rollout.
"On 6 September, the standard review process triggered a voluntary pause to vaccination across all global trials to allow review of safety data by independent committees, and international regulators," AstraZeneca said.
It added that safety reviewers had recommended to Britain's Medicines Health Regulatory Authority (MHRA) that it was safe to resume the UK trials.
The patient involved in the study had been reportedly suffering from neurological symptoms associated with a rare spinal inflammatory disorder called transverse myelitis.
The UK government brought in new limits on households meeting up in Birmingham, England's second biggest city, and some surrounding areas, where Covid-19 cases have been rising significantly.
Police forces across the UK on Saturday urged the public to exercise restraint and stay away from large gatherings ahead of the new "rule of six" lockdown rules that will officially come into force from Monday, amid a spike in coronavirus infections across the country.
The chairman of the organisation representing police officers across England and Wales asked people to resist any temptation for a weekend of gatherings ahead of the stricter rules restricting indoor and outdoor gatherings to just six at a time, the breach of which comes with a GBP 100 fine.
"There is a real risk some members of the public will take advantage of the current situation and treat this weekend as a party weekend ahead of the tighter restrictions being introduced on Monday," said John Apter, of the Police Federation of England and Wales.
In a series of tougher localised lockdowns, new measures banning people from mixing in homes and gardens will be imposed on Birmingham, Solihull and Sandwell from Tuesday as the R number - or the rate of infection - crossed the crucial mark of one for the first time since the lockdown was gradually eased from June.
Canada reported zero Covid-19 deaths in the past 24 hours for the first time since March 15, according to public health agency data released late on Friday.
Canada's coronavirus death toll stood at 9,163 as of September 11. With 702 new cases, the country's total tally rose to 135,626 on September 11.
New infections in Canada have seen an uptick in cases in the recent days, with most provinces easing lockdown restrictions and schools reopening for in-person classes.
Authorities have been on high alert to avoid fresh outbreaks, and provinces including British Columbia have imposed new curbs to limit the spread of the virus.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Friday said his government was not planning a new nationwide lockdown to contain a resurgence in Covid-19 cases, but would implement a raft of less radical measures, Reuters reported.
France has the seventh-highest Covid-19 death toll in the world, and President Emmanuel Macron's government is trying to curb the spread of the virus while ensuring that economic and social activities such as school children's education can continue.
"The virus is with us for several more months and we must manage to live with it without letting ourselves get drawn once again into a narrative of nationwide lockdown," Castex said in a televised address.
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