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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: Israel announces a three-week nationwide in a bid to quell soaring coronavirus cases, which have passed 4,000 new cases a day. The lockdown is to begin at 1100 GMT Friday, just hours before the start of the Jewish New Year and the High Holidays. France records 7,138 cases over 24 hours, the authorities announce, a day after their daily total passed 10,000. But Sunday's figures are generally lower because of a delay in processing the figures over the weekend. Pharma giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University say they have resumed a vaccine trial after getting the all-clear from British regulators, following a pause announced Wednesday that was caused by a UK volunteer falling ill. The pandemic has killed more than 921,000 people worldwide since surfacing in China late last year, according to an AFP count at 1900 GMT Sunday based on official sources. More than 28.8 million cases have been confirmed. The United States has the most deaths with 193,705, followed by Brazil with 131,210, India with 78,586 and Mexico with 70,604. Authorities in Australian city Melbourne arrest more than 70 people for flouting stay-at-home orders to protest against lockdown restrictions, with some demonstrators clashing with riot police. About 250 people attend the illegal protest -- the second in as many days in Melbourne -- promoted by coronavirus conspiracy groups on social media. Austria is experiencing the start of a second wave of infections, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz says, as cases spike upwards in line with other EU countries. From Friday to Saturday, the Alpine nation of nearly nine million people reported 869 new cases -- more than half in Vienna. Kurz warns that the mark of 1,000 cases per day will soon be reached. Ninety UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon test positive for the novel coronavirus, says a spokesman for the UNIFIL force. Of the 90, 88 belong to the same contingent, says the spokesman, without specifying their nationalities. South Korea will temporarily ease virus curbs in the greater Seoul area after a decline in cases. Authorities had tightened social distancing measures last month following a spike in cases but these will be eased in the metropolitan area starting Monday for two weeks. The German Boxing Federation reports that a "large part" of its 25-strong Tokyo Olympic Games team has contracted the virus while training in the Austrian Alps, even if everyone is doing well so far. The group, made up of 18 boxers and seven other staff members, must now stay in quarantine at the training camp in Laengenfeld in Tirol. New York Fashion Week opens with almost no live audiences and very few major names, but with the goal of helping US designers survive the crisis. Regular heavy-hitters Michael Kors, Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren will not be attending the event, which will last only three days. burs-jj/har
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