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France situation ‘worrying’ after another 8,500 new infections; India sees another record number of daily infections

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 People sit on a cafe’s terrace in Lille, northern France. Photograph: Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images

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Indonesia’s capital Jakarta is to re-implement stricter social restrictions on Monday, after the number of Covid-19 cases in the country have increased over the last month.

On Wednesday night governor Anies Baswedan said that 77% of isolation beds in the capital were currently occupied and the city would run out of beds by 17 September.

Covid-19 intensive care units in the capital would be completely full by 15 September if cases continue to increase, he said.

The measures will see office workers working from home; shopping centres and places of worship closed, while traffic around the capital’s borders will be monitored more closely.

The re-closure of essential industries will be another blow to an already stricken economy that saw its biggest GDP contraction in more than two decades in the second quarter this year.

Jakarta has recorded over 50,000 Covid-19 cases as of Thursday, the highest number in Indonesia, and over 1,300 virus-linked deaths.

In total, Indonesia has recorded more than 207,000 Covid-19 cases and more than 8,400 virus-linked deaths, the highest coronavirus mortality rate in Southeast Asia.

For a detailed look at the situation in France this Twitter thread by veteran Paris correspondent John Lichfield (@john_lichfield) is very much worth a look.