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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: US President Donald Trump declares his Covid-19 illness is a "blessing from God" as he goes back to work in the Oval Office. "I think this is a blessing from God that I caught it," he says in a video, referring to the virus which has killed over 210,000 people in the United States. Democrat Joe Biden, who leads Trump in the latest polls ahead of the November 3 presidential election, says the president's downplaying of the risk as a "tragedy". The pandemic has also overshadowed a televised face-off between vice presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Mike Pence. Democrat Harris says Trump's response to Covid-19 is the "greatest failure" of any US administration. Republican Pence accuses Harris of undermining the public faith in any virus vaccine that could become available under Trump. Across the world, 36.2 million cases of the novel coronavirus have been officially diagnosed since it first emerged in China late last year, according to an AFP tally at 1100 GMT on Thursday based on official sources. Of those 1,057,084 have died. The United States has the highest death toll, with 211,844, followed by Brazil with 148,228, India 105,526, Mexico 82,726 and Britain 42,515. Brazil has surpassed the five million coronavirus infections mark. Madrid's top regional court rejects a partial lockdown imposed on the capital and nine nearby towns to slow the rapid spread of infections. It says the lockdown "impacted on the rights and fundamental freedoms" of the 4.5 million residents affected by the closure which went into force late last week. Under the restrictions, residents are not allowed to leave the city limits except for work, school or medical reasons as the region battles a soaring infection rate of well over 700 cases per 100,000 people. Germany is experiencing a "worrying jump" in cases, Health Minister Jens Spahn says, as the number of new daily infections passes 4,000 for the first time since early April. Europe's biggest economy has a relatively low death toll compared with other European nations. But Hahn says numbers in central Berlin, the financial capital Frankfurt, added to infections from family events or private parties are fuelling the rise in cases, with younger people "partying, travelling, thinking they are invincible". France prepares for tighter coronavirus restrictions in several major cities, two days after a maximum alert protocol went into force in Paris, as the number of daily coronavirus infections hits a record since since widespread testing began. President Emmanuel Macron says the new measures will be similar to protocols put in place in and around the capital, as well as the region around Marseille in the south. "We are not in a normal situation, and we won't be for several months," he says. Eight months into a strict, coronavirus-triggered border shutdown, nuclear-armed North Korea is widely expected to stage an attention-grabbing display of its latest and most advanced weaponry at a mass military parade in Pyongyang on Saturday. The parade will mark the 75th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party and satellite imagery on the respected 38North website suggests it could be huge, a top US military official says. burs-jmy/dl
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