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The U.K. government has tightened restrictions on the British public in a bid to contain the spread of the coronavirus in the country.

South Africa has announced a nationwide lockdown of its 56 million inhabitants for 21 days, enforced by police and the army, in a bid to curtail the spread of coronavirus.

Hubei province said travel restrictions on the capital city of Wuhan will be removed starting April 8, which would end a lockdown that began on Jan. 23.

The euro zone economy suffered "an unprecedented collapse" in business activity in March as the coronavirus outbreak intensified, according to flash PMI data.

The WHO has warned the coronavirus outbreak is picking up the pace, with almost every country in the world recording cases of COVID-19.

The measure has a price tag of well over $1 trillion and is intended to limit the economic pain from the coronavirus outbreak.

The German government will return to its savings policy once the coronavirus crisis is over, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier told ZDF broadcaster on Tuesday.

The United States added its significant weight to calls for the Tokyo Games to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Disease outbreaks have led to longer market declines and rebounds that are less sharp as compared with crises that are brought on by natural disasters, according to Credit Suisse.

CNBC's Joumanna Bercetche argues why we need to be able to trust that the actions of policymakers will be enough to minimize the human and economic loss of coronavirus.

The U.S. Federal Reserve announced an open-ended asset purchase program on Monday, while Germany is set to unveil major stimulus measures.

An early look at Chinese business conditions in March shows little indication the economy has recovered much from the shock of the new coronavirus in the first two months of the year, according to the China Beige Book.

There are just not enough dollars to execute trades and transactions – that explains why the trade-weighted dollar index, gained more than 4% last week.

The cryptocurrency market suffered a violent sell-off earlier this month as global markets tanked due to the continued spread of the coronavirus. But bitcoin and other digital coins are bouncing back.

Billions of dollars are at stake. Japan has pumped at least $12 billion of investment into the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games, not to mention the losses that would be incurred by sponsors, broadcasters and others.

Trump also seemed to downplay the threat of the coronavirus, which on Monday topped 43,000 cases and more than 500 deaths in the U.S.

Global cases have more than doubled in the past week, according to the World Health Organization, and worldwide deaths have nearly tripled.

"The pandemic is accelerating," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday.

It comes as legislators and workers have called out Amazon for failing to provide paid leave.

As of Monday, more than 375,000 cases of coronavirus have been reported, resulting in at least 16,100 deaths.