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After employees say they miss perks such as free food, Google launched a new policy clarifying they can't expense these perks while working from home, according to internal documents seen by CNBC.

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will also forgo his base salary for the rest of the year, which was $1 million in 2019.

In less than a week, Disney will reopen its Shanghai theme park, offering a glimpse to the rest of the theme park industry of what operations will look like in the time of the coronavirus.

"The public health importance of this is critical because without knowing where the animal origin is it's difficult for us to prevent this from happening again," a WHO official said Wednesday.

WHO warned there can be "no going back to business as usual" following the coronavirus pandemic, which has upended economies and wreaked havoc on nearly every country.

The board includes a former Prime Minister of Denmark and several former journalists.

Barrick Gold CEO Mark Bristow joins Squawk Box after the company reports earnings, to speak about the spike in demand for gold during the coronavirus crisis.

The new coronavirus strain began spreading in Europe in early February before migrating to other parts of the world, including the U.S., becoming the dominant form of the virus across the globe by the end of March, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory found in a new study.

"We will want, if we possibly can, to get going with some of these measures on Monday," U.K. Prime Minister Johnson told Parliament.

More specific measures relating to the program will be published in next few weeks.

Putin's approval rating fell to 59% in April, down from 63% in the previous month, according to a poll carried out by the independent Levada Center.

A coronavirus relief fund for Native American communities, which has raised over $2.5 million so far, has seen an influx of Irish donors, looking to reciprocate the aid given to Ireland during its potato famine of the 1840s.

Chinese stocks are underperforming the S&P 500 this year. One name could foreshadow the group's next move, according to strategist Matt Maley.

Company says Covid-19 pandemic will affect results from second quarter of 2020.

The streaming service pulled the episode hours after CNBC brought it to the company's attention, but Apple is yet to pull the same podcast.

"This situation makes me sick, because (it) is totally avoidable," Lucica Ditiu, executive director of the Stop TB Partnership, said.

The Bank of England is expected to leave rates unchanged on Thursday, with analysts expecting the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to wait until June before acting in order to assess the impact of coronavirus containment measures.

Greece might be spared from having to hit strict fiscal targets related to previous bailouts next year, a government official told CNBC, given the ongoing health and economic crises.

The gains come as investors weighed the consequences of a growing number of states beginning to reopen their economies in the first two weeks of May.

President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said that Russia couldn't "show any solidarity" with China-bashing statements from the U.S., and stressed the importance of Moscow's relationship with Beijing.