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The number of Covid-19 cases in the city-state has spiked in the past month — from about 1,000 cumulative cases on April 1 to more than 10,000 today.

Chinese state energy company Sinopec is in early-stage talks with Hin Leong Trading Pte Ltd to buy a stake in an oil storage terminal that is partly owned by the Singapore trader, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter.

About 4.3 million workers are expected to have filed unemployment claims last week, bringing virus-related layoffs to over 26.3 million.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that will temporarily halt the issuance of certain green cards as he uses the coronavirus pandemic to push long-stalled immigration measures during an election year.

Dr. Rick Bright also said that he believed he was removed from his post because he insisted that "the billions of dollars allocated by Congress to address the Covid-19 pandemic" be invested "into safe and scientifically vetted solutions."

The government on Sunday began relaxing some social distancing rules, but Asia's fourth-largest economy is spiraling toward its first technical recession since 2003, defined as two straight quarters of decline, as the pandemic stymies an export recovery.

Covid-19 has infected more than 2.6 million people around the world as of Wednesday, killing at least 180,784 people.

As data points come in, they'll largely tell a story about the present and the near past. What they won't provide, at least for a few months, is a reliable portrait of the future.

The two cats live in separate areas of the state and are expected to make a full recovery, the CDC said in a statement.

Testing saliva for coronavirus infections gives results that are at least as accurate as nasal swabs, the current gold standard for Covid-19 screenings, a Yale study found.

Hundreds of Airbnb hosts have taken to online groups to complain that they have yet to receive any payments from a $250 million coronavirus relief fund announced by the company last month. Some of those who have received payments say they're woefully inadequate.

U.S. officials have long feared that Iran's pursuit of developing satellite technology is a cover for ballistic missile activity.

Sales this month are still expected to be down about 50% compared with April 2019. However, the decline is far less than previously expected, with the coronavirus pandemic wiping out the majority of sales for the month, the firm said Wednesday.

Famines of "biblical proportions" are becoming a serious risk as the coronavirus crisis threatens to double the number of people nearing starvation, a U.N. body has warned.

Oil prices jumped on Wednesday, despite ongoing concerns about a growing supply glut and a lack of available storage.

Analysis of the information found it had likely been collected from previous breaches, a practice that is not uncommon in the internet's black market for data, NBC News reported.

"Make no mistake, we have a long way to go. This virus will be with us for a long time," WHO's top official says.

Comparing the pandemic with other periods of economic hardship, such as the Great Depression, Dalio said the current downturn — painful as it is — would be "relatively brief" and would allow for a wider global "restructuring."

German consumers are counting their pennies rather than returning to shop in large numbers as stores gradually reopen after being locked down during the coronavirus crisis, the national retailers association said on Wednesday.

President Trump warned that the United States would destroy Iranian gunboats that harass American ships at sea.