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Labor Minister Hubertus Heil told Sunday's edition of the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that he aims to put forward such legislation this fall.

The official number of deaths related to COVID-19 in hospitals across the United Kingdom rose above 20,000 on Saturday, with the overall figure likely to be significantly higher once deaths in care homes and hospices are tallied.

Dozens of protesters handed out newspapers entitled 'Democratic Resistance', which said the new coronavirus is an attempt to seize power by spreading fear.

The United States had reported more than 52,400 deaths as of Saturday morning, while Italy, Spain and France have reported between 22,000-26,000 fatalities each.

The lifting of the embargo was stipulated in the multi-nation Iranian nuclear deal concluded in 2015 but which the United States unilaterally renounced in 2018.

The reported death toll rose by 179 to 5,500, the tally showed on Saturday.

The UK government has been heavily criticised over limited testing capacity and for failing to deliver enough personal protective equipment to front-line health workers.

Under the lockdown restrictions, Parisians are confined to their apartments except for brief outings to shop for food and exercise.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said all new vaccines, diagnostics and treatments against the new coronavirus must be made equally available to everyone worldwide,

Interest in Gilead's remdesivir has been high as there are currently no approved treatments or preventive vaccines for COVID-19

Cuomo said the testing targeted people who were out in society shopping, meaning that they may be more likely to be infected than people isolating at home.

Ramzan is the holiest month in Islam, when devout Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset. It will begin this week, depending on the sighting of the moon.

The South China Morning, which is more than 116 year old, was taken over by Alibaba from Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok in a $266 million deal in 2015.

After taking patients’ individual characteristics into account, researchers calculated that the risk of death was more than double in those who received hydroxychloroquine.

Many medications used to sedate and immobilize people put on ventilators and to treat their pain are the same drugs that states use to put inmates to death.

Rapid regional warming saw the ice sheet collapse over a period of just 500 years.