Brazil's Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive for Covid-19 hours after accompanying President Jair Bolsonaro to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. He had also met British prime minister Boris Johnson at the UN before testing positive.<br />''<br />''Queiroga will remain in New York in quarantine, the government's communications office said in a statement. "The minister is doing well," the statement said. It added that the rest of the delegation tested negative for the virus.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, France Wednesday flatly denied a report published in Britain's Daily Telegraph saying President Emmanuel Macron was willing to give up France's permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council in exchange for the formation of a European Union army.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">On the first day of the meeting, Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country will no longer fund coal-fired power plants abroad, surprising the world on climate for the second straight year at the UN General Assembly. That came hours after US President Joe Biden announced a plan to double financial aid to poorer nations to $11.4 billion by 2024 so those countries could switch to cleaner energy and cope with global warming's worsening impacts.</span><br />