"I think this week's going to really be a pivotal week for us to get a picture of where things are heading in states like Florida and Arizona and Texas, whether or not they're tipping over into exponential growth or not," Gottlieb said.
The currency markets are currently facing "multiple cross-currents" amid fears over a potential second wave of coronavirus cases in the world, said Deutsche Bank's Sameer Goel.
The European Union is hoping to revive investment talks with China on Monday, as it hosts calls with the Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang.
China kept its benchmark lending rate unchanged on Monday, with the 1-year loan prime rate left at 3.85%. The 5-year loan prime rate was also kept steady at 4.65%.
Carnival Cruise Line, which is owned by the world's largest cruise company, Carnival Corp., had previously announced plans to resume some U.S. operations on Aug. 1.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines a close contact as anyone who was within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes starting two days before the onset of symptoms.
"More people will die, and it doesn't have to be that way. Forget the politics, be smart, open the economy intelligently and save lives at the same time. That's what we showed works in New York," Cuomo said.
The number of new coronavirus cases reported Thursday "were the most in a single day so far," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press conference from the agency's Geneva headquarters.
As of Thursday, the nation's seven-day average in new cases increased more than 15% compared with a week ago, according to a CNBC analysis of data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
"We're not shutting down. We're going to go forward ... We're not rolling back," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news briefing Tuesday. "You have to have society function."
Stocks in Asia Pacific were higher on Friday as investors continued to monitor the situation surrounding a recent uptick in coronavirus cases in some countries.
Singapore further eased "circuit breaker" measures on Friday, allowing more businesses to resume including shopping at physical retail stores, as well as dining in at food and beverage outlets.
Both India and China are nuclear powers and analysts say that chances of a war breaking out are unlikely.
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