What follows are the latest developments related to the spread of the new Corona virus in the world in light of the latest numbers, new measures and notable events:
Joe Biden, who has a good chance of winning the US presidential election, pledged to tackle the pandemic on his "first day" at the White House.
The United States, the country most affected in the world by Covid-19, recorded a new record number of new infections with the new Corona virus in one day, Friday, with 127 thousand cases.
A number of prominent officials in the Donald Trump administration have contracted the virus in the past few weeks, the most recent of which was White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, whose test results were positive by US media late Friday.
The new Corona virus has killed at least one million 243,513 people in the world since December, according to a toll prepared by Agence France-Presse on Saturday, 11:00 GMT, according to official sources.
More than 49 million 316,540 confirmed cases have been recorded since the outbreak of the epidemic.
And Brazil is the country most affected by the virus after the United States, as the number of deaths on its soil reached 162 thousand and 15, then India, which recorded 125 thousand and 562 deaths, and Mexico, where 94,323 deaths were announced, followed by the United Kingdom with 48,475 deaths.
Six countries, namely Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Italy and the United States, announced that they had detected new infections with the Corona virus related to farms raising mink animals for their fur, according to the World Health Organization.
And Denmark had warned that the mutation of the virus could threaten the effectiveness of any future vaccine and had ordered the disposal of all these animals on its territory, estimated at between 15 and 17 million.
On Saturday, Britain banned the entry of all non-resident foreigners from Denmark, after the mutated virus associated with mink farms was detected in humans.
The Italian government decided, Friday night, Saturday, to new support measures for economic sectors and families affected by the recent restrictive measures, worth 2.5 billion euros, according to media.
The closure of new "red zones" was announced on Friday, namely Lombardy, Piedmont, Valle da Aosta and Calabria, and curfews were imposed throughout Italy on Friday from 22:00 (21:00 GMT) until December 3.
Spanish club Real Madrid announced on Saturday that its Belgian striker Eden Hazar and Brazilian midfielder Casemiro had contracted the new Corona virus.
Thus, Real will have to play its match on Sunday against Valencia in the ninth stage of the Spanish League without its players.
Argentine President Alberto Fernandez expected a vaccine would be available by the end of the year after reaching an agreement with Russia that would inject 10 million of the country´s 44 million people.
The Russian Sputnik-V vaccine, which Argentina intends to use, has been met with skepticism by scientists around the world, for several reasons, most notably its failure to reach the final stages of the test when it was launched last August.
