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The company on Thursday signed an agreement with Swiss firm CordenPharma for the supply of large-scale volumes of lipid excipients used to produce its vaccine candidate.

Now there is another, a still-growing American casualty list that has exceeded deaths from the Vietnam and Korean wars combined.

On May 18, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Germany was hoping to ease a travel warning on all tourist trips abroad that is in place until June 15.

The comments came after Beijing unveiled plans last week for national security legislation for Hong Kong.

Coronavirus outbreaks have also hit meatpacking and abattoir workers in adjacent northwestern Germany.

So far 1,167 people have died of the COVID-19 including 34 who lost their lives in the last 24 hours. A total of 17,482 patients have recovered from the deadly contagion.

In Bangladesh, it has killed at least 22 people and left many displaced in the coastal areas. Guterres on Friday took to Twitter to express sadness over the loss of lives and destruction.

Top officials at NASA and Elon Musk's company had been meeting since Thursday for final checks of the Crew Dragon space capsule ahead of its maiden May 27 crewed mission.

Biden stumbled into the controversy as he was defending his ties to the African-American community, saying he has 'overwhelming support' from black leaders and voters.

In a report to the UN Security Council released Thursday, Antonio Guterres pointed to the more than 20,000 civilians killed or injured in 2019 attacks in 10 countries - and millions more forced from their homes by fighting.

The legal ramifications of the announcement from Salah, who resides in Saudi Arabia, were not immediately clear.

The United States has recorded more than 1.5 million confirmed COVID-19 infections and 91,600 fatalities as of Tuesday.

There have been 90,309 deaths linked to novel coronavirus in the United States and more than 1.5 million cases of infection, the tracker showed.

The move drew furious criticism from congressional Democrats and others who accused the department and Attorney General William Barr of politicizing the US criminal justice system.

Observing that shopkeepers in Pakistan will "die of hunger rather than the coronavirus", the Supreme Court announced the order.

The vaccine, mRNA-1273, appeared to produce an immune response in eight people who received it, of the same magnitude as that observed in people convalescing from the virus, the company said.