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Dr. Alex Jahangir, the head of Nashville's coronavirus task force, said nearly 50% of all new cases detected in the past month were found in southeast Nashville.

"We've had the most science-based, the most informed reopening, I think it's fair to say, in the country," Cuomo said.

Black Americans are disproportionately getting sick and dying from the coronavirus.

Stocks in Asia Pacific fell on Thursday as the U.S. Federal Reserve indicated on Wednesday that it would keep interest rates near zero through 2022.

J&J said it is committed to the goal of supplying more than 1 billion doses globally through the course of 2021.

Covid-19 is a new virus and the WHO is learning all the time, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says.

Government responses should focus on detecting and isolating infected people with symptoms, said the WHO's Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove.

Texas health authorities said there are currently 2,153 patients sickened with Covid-19 across its hospitals, making Wednesday the third-straight day of record-breaking coronavirus hospitalizations.

The WHO "walked that back because there's no evidence to indicate that's the case," Dr. Anthony Fauci says.

Texas has reported two consecutive days of record-breaking Covid-19 hospitalizations as the state continues to open businesses and resume activities that were temporarily shuttered due to the coronavirus.

China has faced criticism over its initial handling of the Covid-19 outbreak, which has included accusations that it withheld critical information from the WHO.

Dr. Anthony Fauci says Covid-19 turned out to be his "worst nightmare" come to life as the coronavirus continues to rapidly spread across the globe.

Chinese inflation data for May missed expectations. The Producer Price Index for May fell 3.7% from a year earlier, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics. That was a larger decline that the 3.3% fall expected by analysts in a Reuters poll.

Any potential move that U.S. President Donald Trump may take against China will likely be "more bark than bite," said Kelvin Tay, regional chief investment officer at UBS Global Wealth Management.

A new bill that targets Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges could not only "backfire" on American investors, and Wall Street could oppose it, a Harvard professor told CNBC on Tuesday.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced Tuesday that the state is lifting its stay-at-home order that has been in place since mid-March and will allow larger gatherings at both indoor and outdoor venues.

"Just because you reopen doesn't mean you'll have a spike, but if you're not smart you can have a spike," Cuomo said Tuesday.

The WHO scrambled to clarify its comments that transmission of the coronavirus by people who never developed symptoms is "very rare."

There are currently 1,935 Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the state, topping the previous hospitalization record of 1,888 patients on May 5.