The new data marks the country's highest daily increase in cases since since May 8, which saw the total grow by 1,515 cases.

Trump denied the report on Sunday, calling it "total fake news" at a White House news conference.

The ransomware, like similar malware, often infiltrates computer networks via phishing emails.

Navalny, who collapsed on a plane from Siberia to Moscow on Aug. 20 and spent nearly three weeks in a coma, was discharged last week from the Berlin hospital where he was being treated.

Patients are already benefiting. Though more deaths are expected this fall because of the recent surge in coronavirus infections in the U.S. and elsewhere, there also are signs that death rates are declining and that people who get the virus now are faring better than did those in the early months of the pandemic.

The appointment of a civilian prime minister was a major condition imposed by the West African regional economic bloc, ECOWAS, on Mali to lift sanctions that were imposed after an Aug. 18 coup.

They've set a goal to be able to test 200,000 people per day in the event demand becomes that great.

The 90-minute hearing came after President Donald Trump declared this summer that TikTok was a threat to national security and that it either sold its U.S. operations to U.S. companies or the app would be barred from the country.