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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: The US Department of Homeland Security says that a COVID-19 ban on non-essential travel through border crossings with Canada and Mexico is being extended until September 21. The reciprocal travel ban was first imposed in March and has been extended several times since then. The British government reimposes a 14-day quarantine from Saturday for travellers arriving from France, prompting Paris to promise a "reciprocal measure". The Netherlands and Malta are also removed from the UK's list of countries exempted from quarantine. European stocks slump on the news at the end of a largely positive week, with London's benchmark FTSE 100 index and the Paris CAC 40 both finishing down 1.6 percent and Frankfurt's DAX 30 shedding 0.7 percent. Germany adds all of Spain, excluding the Canary Islands, to its list of high-risk coronavirus areas, with its health ministry saying "a very dynamic outbreak is evident in Spain". Spain closes discos and bans smoking in the street without social distancing, among a raft of new measures as the country battles a surge in the disease, with nearly 3,000 new cases in 24 hours reported Thursday. Greece also closes bars and restaurants from midnight to 7:00 a.m in its regions most affected by COVID-19 infections. The pandemic has killed at least 754,649 people worldwide since surfacing in China late last year, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Friday. At least 21 million cases have been registered. The United States has recorded the most deaths with 167,253, followed by Brazil with 105,463, Mexico 55,293, India with 48,040 and Britain 41,347. The latter the toll has been revised downwards following a change in the counting method on Wednesday. Britain says it has secured access to 90 million doses of two "promising" coronavirus vaccines taking its total orders of potential COVID-19 vaccines to nearly 350 million doses. Canada is to offer permanent residency to asylum seekers who put themselves at risk to care for coronavirus patients, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino says. They will be able to apply for residency for themselves and their families if they had submitted their application by March 2020, even if their demand had already been rejected. Serbia will require negative coronavirus tests taken within 48 hours for foreigners coming from four neighbouring countries, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Romania from Saturday. And Austria urges its citizens to return from Croatia, due to an increase in the number of infections in the popular tourist destination. burs-acm/jmy/pvh
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