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Coronavirus live news: WHO says states can't 'pretend pandemic is over', French cases rise 50% in August

Hong Kong to launch mass testing; India’s economy shrinks nearly 24%; Spain cases jump 23,000 since Friday. Follow the latest

Spain has registered more than 23,000 new COVID-19 cases since Friday, health emergency chief Fernando Simon said on Monday, suggesting the infection rate had declined slightly from an 21 August peak, Reuters reports.

Health ministry data showed 2,489 new cases were diagnosed in the past 24 hours, bringing the total since the onset of the pandemic to 462,858.

Back to India and the former Indian president, Pranab Mukherjee, a senior leader of the Congress party who served in multiple cabinets during five decades in politics, has died. He was 84.

Mukherjee had emergency surgery for a blood clot in his brain on 10 August after a fall. The hospital said he tested positive for Covid-19 after the surgery and his condition was critical.

Related: India mourns former president Pranab Mukherjee amid Covid crisis

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