The US also leads the world by far in the number of confirmed infections, with 555,313 by the Baltimore-based university's count.
The US government is extending a temporary license that will allow US companies to continue doing business with Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co for another 45 days.
The US' largest machinery manufacturer is planning to organize a group of Chinese large contractors to go on an inspection tour of Africa and the Middle East later this month, where Caterpillar owns mature dealership networks and rich resources, according to Chen Qihua, its vice-president.
The US has been using religion and human rights as a cover to "slander and smear China's Xinjiang policies and interfere in China's internal affairs again and again", Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on Tuesday, adding that it is "going further down the wrong path" by holding the panel discussion. He urged the US to cancel the event.
The United States is Chinese tourists' top destination for road trips overseas. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
The US State Department did not confirm the Venezuelan government's account, reiterating only that its priority remains the safety of its personnel and that it has no plans to close the embassy.
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The US Public Health Service's Admiral Brett Giroir, the administration's testing czar, told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday that he respects Fauci but he is not "100 percent right".
The United States has recorded more than 16.19 million cases with over 298,700 related deaths as of Sunday afternoon, according to the real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
The US Geological Survey says the quake struck late Monday 49 miles (79 kilometers) off the island's northwest coast at a shallow depth of 6 miles (10 kilometers).
The US president was also confident about a possible trade deal with India at the joint press conference with Modi.