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Data from approximately 8,000 antibody tests conducted by Northwell Health found that New York City overall had a positive rate of nearly 20%.

For children over age 2, the number of doses is down a "shocking" 91%, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

United's new CEO, Scott Kirby, says he is open to working with unions to potentially have workers scheduled for fewer hours in order to avoid furloughs.

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit is set to conduct its first orbital rocket launch on Saturday.

Walmart Chief Executive Doug McMillon said, given the chance, he would do the $3.3 billion Jet.com deal again.

The World Health Organization is holding a briefing Wednesday on the coronavirus, which has infected more than 4.9 million people worldwide, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

Trump's comments came shortly after Brazil's daily death toll from the coronavirus jumped to a record of 1,179 on Tuesday.

"It looks like the consumers really want to come back and shop, and we have to just manage this whole process," PVH CEO Manny Chirico told CNBC.

Jim Cramer said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that the economic restrictions around the coronavirus crisis have hurt small business at the expense of giant retailers.

Despite resisting a lockdown on its citizens and businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic, Sweden's banks remain vulnerable to credit losses, the country's central bank warned on Wednesday.

While 78% of unemployed Americans described themselves as temporarily laid off in the government's April jobs report, new research suggests for many people that may not be the case.

"The economic impact of the lockdown is just starting to begin," Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey said on CNBC's "Squawk Box."

A new report has suggested that alternating strict measures with intervals of relaxed social distancing could be a more effective way of slowing the spread of Covid-19 than indefinite or milder lockdowns.

Dow futures bounced Wednesday, continuing the volatility that's been the hallmark of Wall Street during the coronavirus crisis.

As businesses reopen, protecting customers and employees is critical for companies that fear a wave of potential Covid-19 legal liabilities.

"I think this is the low point of the year," Kohl's CEO Michelle Gass said in a phone interview. "For half the quarter, our stores had no sales."

Brazil's cumulative cases of 271,628 is the third-highest globally behind the U.S. and Russia, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

The U.S. is to send 200 ventilators to Russia after President Vladimir Putin called President Trump to ask for help, the U.S. State Department told CNBC.

Russia's coronavirus cases surpassed 300,000 on Wednesday, cementing its position as the second-worst-hit country from the virus after the U.S., but there are increasing questions over the country's low death toll.