The US Department of Health and Human Services has said it is investigating a manufacturing defect in some initial coronavirus test kits, Reuters reported. This has prompted some states to seek approval to use their own kits, and the US Food and Drug Administration said on Saturday that it would allow some labs to use tests they have developed, in order to speed up testing capacity, Reuters said.
The US will not be represented at the intra-Afghan talks, which envoy Khalilzad said would not be on the "Taliban's terms".
The United States has a hierarchical system for vaccination where health care workers are the first in line to be inoculated, but the allocation of vaccines across states is based on the number of adults in each state, meaning health care workers in certain states may end up getting their doses later than those deemed lower priority in other states.
The US move has provided Bolsonaro's foes with new arsenals to satirize the Brazilian leader.
The US, with 4 percent of the world's population, accounts for about 25 percent of the world's reported cases (10.1 million) and deaths (503,000), according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The UK health department said 20 million pounds of funding will go to the Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator, also called CARB-X, a United States non-profit organization that provides financial, scientific and business support to global research into the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria.
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The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates Wednesday by a quarter-point for the second time in two months to ease the disruption of the continuing US-China trade dispute and offset the weight of a global economic slowdown.
The UN report, which looked at practices that harm women and girls and undermine equality, featured a group of South Korean female activists who fought to curb a deep-rooted preference for son in the 1980s.
The US Fed, on the other hand, has decided to maintain interest rates close to zero after a two-day meeting on Wednesday. It committed to using its "full range of tools" to support the US economy in the challenging times, as the COVID-19 crisis poses considerable risks to the economic outlook over the medium term.
The US action is not consistent with the quantitative criteria set by the US Treasury Department for a so-called currency manipulator, said Wang Chunying, a spokeswoman for the SAFE.