COVID-19 Live Updates: US Confirms Over 126,000 New Cases

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The French parliament has voted in favor of extending the state of emergency introduced amid the coronavirus pandemic until February 2021.

The National Assembly (lower house of the French parliament) adopted the measure in the final reading on Saturday, with 154 against 38 votes. The vote was broadcast by the parliament's channel (LCP) on Twitter.

Earlier, the extension was approved by both the Senate and the National Assembly, in the first reading.

On Friday, France reported a record high daily increase of coronavirus cases (more than 60,400). The total number of coronavirus cases registered in France has surpassed 1.6 million, while the country's COVID-19 death toll stands at over 39,800.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Another 74 people have died from the coronavirus disease in the Russian capital over the past 24 hours, the Russian COVID-19 response center said on Saturday.

"In Moscow, 74 patients with confirmed pneumonia diagnosis and positive coronavirus test results died," the center said in an update.

Moscow's cumulative death toll from COVID-19 has now reached 7,289.

It is almost 2 thousand more than on Friday when 23,287 new cases of coronavirus were reported.

The Saudi Ministry of Health has reported 407 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, raising the total number to 350,229, including 7,738 active cases undergoing treatment. At the same time 433 cases have recovered, bringing recoveries' toll to 336,966.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has registered 20,369 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total to 1,753,836, the federal response centre said Saturday.

This is slightly less than the record of 20,582 cases recorded the previous day. Some 16,803 have been discharged with recoveries.

Moscow has been consistently reporting the highest daily increase in infections of all regions. On Saturday, it posted 5,892 new cases. St. Petersburg reported 1,258 new cases while the Moscow Region witnessed 629.