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Seoul and Washington are currently negotiating a mechanism specifying how both countries share the costs of stationing some 28,500 American troops in South Korea as a deterrent to Pyongyang.

Generally, many emerging markets don't have the capacity to effectively contain the outbreak while limiting the economic hit on businesses and households, said Robert Kahn, director of global strategy and global macro at Eurasia Group.

Job losses across Asia Pacific could surge as countries are forced into lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic, S&P Global said in a report Monday.

The partnership with Starbucks marks Beyond Meat's entry into the Chinese market.

The suit is among the first collective legal actions taken by health workers over the handling of the coronavirus outbreak by hospital administrators and state government.

The World Health Organization's top official warned that countries seeking to politicize the Covid-19 pandemic are "playing with fire."

U.S. poison centers received 45,550 exposure calls related to cleaners and disinfectants from January through March, a 20.4% increase from a year ago.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is holding his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 85,300 people in the state as of Monday.

"That joy and that pride that all of these events bring, that celebration, will be back," de Blasio promised.

The number of coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia has risen quickly in recent weeks, with mounting worries among experts that the region could turn into the next hot spot.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 248,400 people across the state as of Monday.

The virus has infected more than 2.4 million people worldwide and killed more than 165,000, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

The number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus in Spain has now surpassed 200,000, the country's health ministry said on Monday.

"We've had a little difficulty with one so we're calling in, as in the past you know, we're calling in the Defense Production Act and we'll be getting swabs very easily," Trump said.

David Bailin, chief investment officer at Citi Private Bank, said company earnings could fall by 40% "across the board" in the second quarter.

China cut its one-year loan prime rate to 3.85% from 4.05%. The five-year loan prime rate was also reduced to 4.65% from 4.75%. The moves marked the second cut to the loan prime rates for 2020.

Covid-19 has infected more than 2.3 million around the world as of Sunday, killing at least 164,000 people.

On Saturday, The Washington Post reported that the CDC's coronavirus testing kits were delayed due to "a glaring scientific breakdown" at the agency's central lab.

The anitbody tests will give the state its "first true snapshot" of how many people in the state have been infected with Covid-19, Cuomo said.

The WHO said there's no evidence serological tests can show whether a person has immunity or is no longer at risk of becoming reinfected.