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More than 1 million Americans have been tested for the novel coronavirus. More than 200,000 have tested positive.

Advertiser information firm MediaRadar said it estimates broadcasters for the three U.S. sports leagues could lose nearly $1.3 billion.

World Health Organization officials cautioned Friday that more young people are becoming critically ill and dying due to COVID-19.

Stocks fell to end another volatile week, pressured by a spike in coronavirus-related deaths in New York and a dismal U.S. jobs report.

Mexico's Grupo Modelo said on Thursday it will temporarily stop brewing Corona beer and other brands exported to 180 countries after its business activities were declared non-essential under a government order aimed at curbing the coronavirus.

The company's annual shopping event has been postponed until at least August.

Germany seems to be taking the epidemic in its stride with a high number of cases but a low number of deaths, thanks to a number of factors.

"Never in the history of the IMF have we witnessed the world economy come to a standstill," said Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the IMF, during a press conference on the pandemic.

"We are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of the pandemic," WHO's top official says.

It was the first decline in payrolls since September 2010 and came close to the May 2009 financial crisis peak of 800,000.

For public health departments, this kind of data could be helpful in alerting them to the next potential COVID-19 hotspot.

The escalating coronavirus outbreak has cast a shadow of uncertainty over most aspects of daily life, prompting a surge in demand for wills and life insurance policies as people look to secure their futures.

Queen Elizabeth will make an extremely rare address to the nation on Sunday as Britain grapples with the increasingly deadly coronavirus outbreak.

The president of Latin America's largest economy has repeatedly played down the threat of the pandemic, dismissing it as a "little flu."

Deep oil output cuts by OPEC and other producing nations would not be enough to prevent a huge build in global crude inventories, the head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, said.

Those measures will be in place for one month "in the first instance," said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

The U.K. opened NHS Nightingale in London on Friday, Britain's first coronavirus field hospital and the world's largest critical care unit, which was built in just nine days.

A generation of risk-averse supersavers could emerge from the fallout of the coronavirus crisis and potentially reshape the economy, experts have said.

The coronavirus pandemic is hitting European economies sharply, with the latest economic data showing massive falls in services activity across the region.

Oil prices rallied Thursday on the possibility of a deal to cut production, but Victor Shum of IHS Markit said there's "little chance" that any OPEC+ deal could save the market.