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France, Italy, Poland, Europe, UK, Russia, from The Guardian's Coronavirus Live Feed:

France sees over 20,000 cases in a single day

The number of coronavirus infections in France jumped over 20,000 in one day for the first time since the start of the epidemic, health ministry data showed.

The ministry reported 20,330 new infections, taking the total to 691,977 since the start of the year. In the past two days the ministry had reported more than 18,000 daily new confirmed Covid-19 cases.

The number of deaths from the virus increased by 109 to 32,630, the highest in a week but below highs of around 150 seen earlier this month.

However, the death toll figures can be skewed as the ministry often reports several days of senior citizen residence data in one batch

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Summary

Here’s a summary of the key global coronavirus developments over the last few hours:

• Daily infections in Italy have topped 5,000 for the first time since March. On Friday, the country recorded 5,372 new Covid-19 cases, the first time more than 5,000 infections have been recorded in a single day by the country since 29 March.

• Spain has declared a state of emergency to keep Madrid in partial lockdown measures. Health minister Salvador Illa said the restrictions would remain in place in the capital for a fortnight after 63 people died from Covid-19 in the region in the last week.

• Poland has reported a record daily rise in infections for the fourth day in a row. The country recorded 4,739 new cases on Friday, ahead of masks becoming mandatory in all public places from Saturday.

• Europe has recorded 100,000 daily coronavirus cases for the first time. Infections in the continent passed 100,000 on Thursday after a steady rise over the past week. The UK, Russia, Spain and France have reported over 10,000 cases each in the last three days.