British and EU negotiators are making slow progress in working towards an agreement on future relations.
Merkel's last major role on the international stage comes as the 27-member club faces its deepest recession since World War II.
The legislation was unanimously approved by China's rubber-stamp parliament on Tuesday morning.
The new round of talks in Brussels will be the first to be held face-to-face since the coronavirus shutdown.
So far this year, the auto market has shrank 41.5 percent due to the impact of coronavirus lockdowns.
Europe faces its biggest recession in the bloc's 63-year history, and states are under pressure to look beyond their own borders.
It was Johnson's first personal involvement in the talks, which began just weeks after Britain left the EU on January 31 after 47 years.
Monday's video conference with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Council chief Charles Michel will review progress in the talks.
Britain is expected to ask for any extension to the post-Brexit transition and so is on track to leave the single market and EU customs union on December 31.
Despite the threat of another trade war, investors are focusing on the easing of lockdowns around the world.
Experts said the concession would demonstrate to Brussels that London took the Northern Ireland deal seriously.
Swedes have been strongly advised to continue working from home and possibly not just for weeks, but for months to come.
Washington is locked in an increasingly bitter spat with Beijing over the new coronavirus pandemic and has also taken aim at the WHO.
Britain and European Union will begin the next level of post-Brexit trade talks on Monday that will be followed by videoconferences throughout the week.
This is alarming for those in the EU after restrictions have been implemented by authorities to prevent companies from sourcing details without consent.
The latest round of talks took place Monday by videolink because of virus restrictions.
Some observers have warned that the coronavirus epidemic has made a quick deal impossible.
The slowing rate of news infections is providing some much-needed buoyancy to equities as investors eye an easing of lockdown restrictions.
Johnson has deputised his foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, to stand in for him, but remained conscious according to Downing Street.
Forecasters suggested such a scenario would have caused huge economic damage and the likely emergence of a hard border with Northern Ireland.
The COVID-19 outbreak has brought the European economy to it knees and Italy, with the backing of France and Spain, wants a massive response from EU partners.
Trump's travel suspension will not affect travellers from the UK.