The ongoing negotiations came after Britain failed to score any breakthrough with the EU in their fourth round of future partnership talks and after London launched formal talks with Washington on a trade agreement.
The next day, the Chongqing Leading Group for Novel Coronavirus Prevention and Control, a government agency responsible for virus control, sent an official letter to the Dali health bureau asking them to return the masks but was rebuffed, according to the Beijing News.
The number of global COVID-19 deaths reached 863,577 on Thursday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Infections that day stood at 26,056,777, the center's data showed.
The number of vehicles on Tibetan roads has rocketed by 73.1 percent to 457,000 over the past five years, thanks to robust economic growth and improved transport facilities.
The nutritional diet guidance released earlier by the National Health Commission and some medical experts in China said ample intake of dairy products could help improve one's immunity.
The once aging industrial region in the borough of Queens with a population of about 80,000 has seen more than 3,000 apartments built in the first six months of this year, according to the building website Localize.city.
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The number of well-known electric car startups is at around 50 in China. However, the total number of such companies could total about 330, according to government data.
The newspaper quoted a Japanese attending an event hosted by extreme-rightist groups as saying it is high time to rearm Japan as the issue on the DPRK's nuclear and missile programs came into focus.
The news conference was held after they met in Washington on Wednesday.
The number of Chinese companies has been increasing in the past few years and is expected to exceed 360 this year, according to GSMA officials.