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The Chinese government has pushed back on the claim, describing it as a 'smear' intended to bolster Trump's reelection chances.

Tensions between the world's two largest economies have spiked in recent weeks, with officials on both sides suggesting the hard-fought trade deal could be abandoned.

Authorities have said they will run shelters at half of capacity, provide masks to people who don't have them and try to keep families grouped together.

But it was unclear if the US declaration would be enough to bolster the peace effort and reverse a decision by the Kabul government to resume offensive operations against the Taliban.

The prominent suggestions by the US are regarding moving manufacturing chain from China and deepening military-strategic ties India, Vietnam and Taiwan.

The elevation of the relatively junior Likud lawmaker (and current acting Justice Minister) Amir Ohana to minister of public security is said to have infuriated several senior leaders in the Likud party.

At 242,271, Russia has the second-highest number of confirmed cases in the world after the United States, something it attributes to a massive testing programme.

The move comes as the president and White House aides hope to produce vaccines for the coronavirus faster than what many scientists believe is realistic.

The UK prime minister laid out plans for businesses to gradually start reopening with 'Covid-19 Secure' measures of social distancing and for the public to use 'good solid British common sense'.

The report by Disease Control and Prevention was published days after a news report that the White House is pushing to return to airport screening in order to re-open the airline industry.

According to historians, pandemics typically have two types of endings: the medical, which occurs when the incidence and death rates plummet, and the social, when the epidemic of fear about the disease wanes.

The total number of positive cases increased to 209,688 after another 11,012 tests came back positive in the last 24 hours, it showed, with the number of fatalities remaining relatively low at 1,915.

South Korea's had 18 new cases in 24 hours with all but one of them linked to a 29-year-old man who visited three clubs in Seoul's Itaewon district before testing.

The spacecraft -- which was launched Tuesday -- arrived safely at a predetermined site, the China Manned Space Agency said, after a hitch in an earlier part of the key test.

The Maduro administration has blamed the attack on the US government, which has denied a connection to Goudreau or his Florida-based security company SilverCorp.

Hydroxychloroquine did not lower the risk of dying or needing a breathing tube in a comparison that involved nearly 1,400 patients treated at Columbia University in New York, researchers reported Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.