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A Harvard University study published last week said the U.S. would need to ramp up testing capacity to at least 5 million tests a day by early June to reopen the economy.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is holding his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 113,800 people in the state as of Wednesday.

De Blasio said the city aims to begin testing personnel next week at hospitals, firehouses, police stations and corrections facilities.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said a funeral for a Hasidic rabbi that drew thousands of mourners in Brooklyn "was absolutely unacceptable."

Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is holding a discussion on the coronavirus pandemic.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 295,100 people across the state as of Wednesday.

The World Health Organization is holding a briefing Wednesday on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 3.1 million people worldwide.

Russia's crisis response center reported 99,939 cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday and Spain has seen its daily number of deaths rise again.

Covid-19 has infected more than 3.1 million people around the world, killing at least 216,808 people.

"We're in war," President Donald Trump proclaimed at a White House news conference last week. "I call it the 'invisible enemy.' That's the war, and it's a dangerous war."

Investors will look for guidance on the U.S. central bank's future path of interest rates as the country looks toward gradually reopening its economy.

Australia, New Zealand and South Korea are among the few which managed to buck the trend and put a lid on the coronavirus outbreak, and investors are cheering.

Singapore's three largest banks are scheduled to release first-quarter earnings in the coming days, starting with DBS on Thursday.

Quest screens patients online to determine whether or not an antibody test is appropriate and then sends them to have their blood drawn at one of the company's 2,200 laboratories, Quest said.

The coronavirus will certainly make a comeback in the U.S. even as cases begin to stabilize, Dr. Anthony Fauci says.

All of the union officials on the call, who collectively represent more than 6 million American workers, criticized OSHA, an agency of the Department of Labor, for not acting more quickly to investigate workplace complaints related to Covid-19.

The coronavirus has touched every state in the U.S., disrupting daily life for millions as leaders have closed businesses to try to curb the outbreak.

Northwell Health CEO Michael Dowling said it's too early to say definitively whether it works, but "our scientists have a reasonable confidence in this trial that it may make a difference."

Existing humanitarian crises like political and economic instability combined with the Covid-19 crisis could create a "double emergency" for vulnerable countries, IRC warns.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is holding his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 111,100 people in the state as of Tuesday.