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In total 177 people are now ill with the disease in China -- two severely -- which is the highest since early May.

Hasina told Parliament that her government will take effective measures so that people do not die of starvation and their lives and livelihoods are not affected.

The new cluster of domestic infections has prompted fresh lockdowns with people ordered to stay home in 11 residential estates near to the market.

Two blood pressure-lowering drug classes, called ACE inhibitors and ARBs, came under scrutiny after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 72% of hospitalised Covid-19 patients 65 or older had hypertension.

Tedros was speaking after concerns have been raised that some countries including the US could hoard any vaccines or drugs they develop, with poorer countries not getting access to the treatments they need.

The researchers explored inhibitors designed to knock out PLpro and stop replication of the novel coronavirus.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said lawmakers would meet later on Thursday with Senator Tim Scott, a black Republican who is working on police reform legislation in the Senate and added that they could have a joint proposal.

Confederate monuments have reemerged as a national flashpoint since the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison drew strong criticism on Thursday after he said "there was no slavery in Australia" during a discussion of the early days of British settlement, which he acknowledged was "pretty brutal."

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They will now be allowed to carry firearms and have the powers to stop and search people.

Johnson said that Britain must able to speak out about "serious concerns" about the origins of COVID-19, Hong Kong and the country's critical national infrastructure with China.

Kennedy Mitchum, a recent graduate of Drake University in Iowa, contacted Merriam-Webster, which has published its dictionaries since 1847, to propose updating the term. 

Trump suggested that the protestor, Martin Gugino, had staged his fall at the hands of an officer during a protest last Thursday, and that he could be "an ANTIFA provocateur" who appeared to be trying to electronically black out police communications.

Supplier Irish Water said the conservation order will last from Tuesday until July 21. It forbids the use of hoses to water lawns and gardens, wash cars or fill swimming pools.

Boris Johnson also said he "heard" the message from those protesting after the killing of George Floyd but that such action should not lead to violence, unlawful actions or the disregarding of social distancing, the spokesman said.