"What we have in the United States, it's hard to describe because it's so many different outbreaks," said Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC.
As the Federal Reserve moves deeper into its purchases of corporate debt, it faces more questions about the consequences of its unprecedented market interventions.
"We all want this to be over. We all want to get on with our lives, but the hard reality is that this is not even close to being over," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
The problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic add to uncertain times for global auto shows, many of which were struggling to retain their prominence prior to the global health crisis.
"To get the employment-to-population ratio back to where it was at its peak in 2000 we need to create 30 million jobs," said Torsten Slok, Deutsche Bank's chief economist.
The English city of Leicester must go back into a stricter lockdown because its Covid-19 infection rate was much higher than anywhere else in the country, health minister Matt Hancock told parliament on Monday.
Oil prices rose about $1 a barrel on Monday, after bullish data from Asia and Europe, but investors are wary about sharp spikes in new coronavirus infections around the world.
The European Central Bank (ECB) could expand its bond-buying program by a further 1 trillion euros ($1.12 trillion) over the next two to three years as inflation takes center stage, according to Berenberg European Economist Florian Hense.
Julian Assange's lawyer said on Monday he was surprised U.S. authorities issued a new and wider indictment last week against the WikiLeaks founder whom they are seeking to extradite from Britain.