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Russia reported its biggest daily jump in new coronaviruses cases so far on Sunday at 2,186, bringing the country's total confirmed cases to 15,770.

Covid-19 has infected more than 1,760,000 people around the world as of Saturday, killing at least 107,000 people.

Total confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. has reached 501,615, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

New York state is the epicenter of the outbreak in the country and has reported more cases than Italy, Spain, France and Germany.

COVID-19 has infected more than 1,650,200 people around the world as of Friday, killing at least 100,376 people.

UnitedHealth Group was hired to help process and expedite the initial $30 billion tranche of payments.

Trump said early estimates indicated the U.S. would see 100,000 to 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus and up to 2.2 million if the U.S. didn't take any action.

Lifting stay-at-home orders too soon could lead to a "deadly resurgence" and there's been an "alarming acceleration" of cases in other countries, WHO officials said.

New York saw more than 700 deaths from Covid-19 on Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

The number of new confirmed cases in Germany continued the upward trend from the past few days. Infections jumped by 5,323 in the past 24 hours to a total of 113,525, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases.

Markets in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and India were closed for the Good Friday holiday.

COVID-19 has infected more than 1,579,600 people around the world as of Thursday, killing at least 94,500 people.

"There is a much bigger wave of protectionism in the near term that we should expect that is not just in medical supplies," said Deborah Elms, executive director at Asian Trade Centre.

"We're in a battle, right, but this is about a war," Cuomo said. "This virus is very, very good at what it does."

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is holding his daily press conference on the COVID-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 47,400 people as of Thursday.

" I would love it if some change could happen in May. But it may not be until June," Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding his daily press conference on the COVID-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 151,079 people in the state as of Thursday morning.

"We care about the life passing every single minute unnecessarily because we couldn't unite to fight this virus," he said.

Birx said the New York metropolitan area, which includes Northern New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island, is still reporting roughly 11,000 new cases a day and that about 40% of all COVID-19 tests are positive.

Russia has reported a record one-day rise of 1,459 new cases of coronavirus Thursday, making the total number of confirmed cases to 10,131.