Dr. Anthony Fauci plans to testify Tuesday to the Senate that reopening U.S. states before they meet the minimum CDC criteria will cause "needless suffering and death," The New York Times reports.
Some 7.5 million people are now covered by the scheme, which will continue to pay workers on leave due to the coronavirus crisis until the end of October.
The president angrily cut short his coronavirus press conference after he accused one reporter of asking "a nasty question," then refused to answer questions from another reporter who he had just called upon.
Ryanair on Tuesday confirmed it will return to 40% of its planned flight schedule from July 1 and will require passengers to wear face coverings and to ask crew permission to use the toilet.
"The Covid-19 crisis is unlike anything the world has experienced in recent history and we are adapting to a highly complex and rapidly changing business environment," Aramco President and CEO Amin Nasser said.
The kingdom will triple VAT from 5% to 15% in July, suspend its cost of living allowance for public sector workers, and cut and delay projects part of Vision 2030.
The insurer had last month flagged the drop when it published preliminary figures, and it abandoned its profit target for the full year, blaming economic uncertainty amid the pandemic.
The stability of the euro zone is once again under scrutiny after the German Constitutional Court issued a decision last week that surprised financial markets and policymakers in Europe.
China announced on Tuesday a new list of 79 U.S. products eligible for waivers from retaliatory tariffs imposed at the height of the bilateral trade war, amid continued pressure on Beijing to boost imports from the United States.
Tencent is likely to show growth when it reports first quarter 2020 earnings on Wednesday as people in China turned to smartphone-based entertainment while locked down at home during the coronavirus outbreak.
The producer price index (PPI) fell 3.1% from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement on Tuesday, compared with a 2.6% drop tipped by a Reuters poll of analysts and a 1.5% decline in March.
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