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The draft law imposes the deductions across the public and private sectors on employees with monthly net incomes above 2,000 Egyptian pounds (around $125).

The powerful cyclone has caused Taka 11 billion (USD 129 million) in damage to the housing, infrastructure, fisheries and livestock, water resources and agriculture in Bangladesh, according to initial government estimates.

The deadly contagion claimed the lives of 50 people in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 1,067, the Ministry of National Health Services said.

Trump in the last several weeks has been very critical of China's inability to control the spread of the novel coronavirus within its territory.

Inovio, which began human testing of its vaccine in April, said preliminary results from that trial are expected in June. Forty participants are given two shots, four weeks apart, of the vaccine, called INO-4800, and then followed for two weeks.

According to police, the accused -- Nadir Ali and Furqan -- were identified by the eyewitnesses and judicial magistrate Mushtaq Ali Jokhio through CCTV footage.

Trump volunteered the disclosure during a question-and-answer session with reporters at the White House.

The number of domestic flights has returned to 60 per cent of pre-outbreak levels, exceeding 10,000 per day for the first time since February 1.

His remarks were surprisingly political and touched on current events beyond the coronavirus and its social and economic impacts.

State data showed that the number of new cases statewide has fluctuated between 2,100 and 2,500 per day. The number of new cases decreased to 2,419 on Saturday from 2,762 on Friday.

Manmeet Kaur, 25, has been selected for the award by 'The Sikh Group', a global organisation recognising people of Sikh faith from around the world, the Express Tribune reported.

Preliminary data from a small trial of the experimental vaccine in six monkeys found that some of the animals given a single shot developed antibodies against the virus within 14 days, and all developed protective antibodies within 28 days.

The British government said it was talking with Roche on rolling out its test after a Public Health England laboratory at Porton Down, in Wiltshire, concluded it had 100% specificity.

Japan has had about 16,000 infections and 687 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak, much lower than in many industrialised nations.

Ousted immunologist Dr. Rick Bright said that without a nationally coordinated response, based on science, the pandemic will cause unprecedented illness and fatalities.

New coronavirus clusters have surfaced around the world as nations struggle to balance restarting their economies and preventing a second wave of infections.