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Major markets across the region — including China, Hong Kong, South Korea, India and Singapore — were closed on Friday for holidays.

Covid-19 has infected more than 3.2 million people around the world as of Thursday, killing at least 232,817 people.

Apple executives gave quite a bit of color on a call with analysts about what they've seen in the macro environment in the time of Covid-19 and how Apple has fared so far

New York City is suspending 24-hour subway service to disinfect subway cars during the coronavirus crisis, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.

The team, led by Bloomberg, is partnering with the health-care nonprofit Vital Strategies to develop the three new smartphone apps.

The state Department of Health, which regulates all funeral homes in the state, has been notified and an investigation is ongoing, NYPD spokesperson Denise Moroney said.

Trump said U.S. officials and scientists are fast-tracking work to produce a vaccine for the coronavirus, adding that he is in charge of its development dubbed "Operation Warp Speed."

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 299,600 people across the state as of Thursday.

The euro zone took a sharp hit to its economy in the first quarter, data released Thursday shows, and everyone is talking about the coronavirus' infection rate as lockdowns are slowly lifted.

Gilead Sciences said preliminary results of a coronavirus drug trial showed at least 50% of patients treated with a five-day dosage of remdesivir improved and more than half were discharged from the hospital within two weeks.

DBS, Southeast Asia's largest bank, said it set aside 1.09 billion Singapore dollars ($772.5 million) to cover potential losses from the coronavirus pandemic.

Covid-19 has infected more than 3.1 million people around the world as of Wednesday, killing at least 226,771 people.

Speaking to reporters, Fauci says he was told data from the trial showed a "clear-cut positive effect in diminishing time to recover."

"We would like to see very quick approvals, especially with things that work," Trump said.

The Food and Drug Administration has been in "sustained and ongoing" discussions with Gilead Sciences to make antiviral drug remdesivir available to Covid-19 patients "as quickly as possible, as appropriate," the agency said.

The company said the hit to demand for diagnostic testing was "marginally offset by an increase in demand for COVID-19 tests."

Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, told reporters Monday it is "entirely plausible" that Covid-19 causes the inflammatory illness in children.

He said he has ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to submit a full plan by Thursday on how it intends to disinfect every train every night

At the average rate of around 157,000 tests run a day in April, it would take almost 6 years to test everyone in the U.S. just once.