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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expanded a state of emergency to include the entire country on Thursday and said the government was considering cash payouts for all.

Switzerland's death toll from the Covid-19 respiratory disease has risen past 1,000, with nearly 27,000 people testing positive.

The U.K. will most likely fail to strike a new trade agreement with the European Union by the end of the year, analysts have told CNBC, as the coronavirus crisis threatens to derail official trade talks.

The energy sector is being affected by the coronavirus in a number of ways.

U.S. banks have a huge opportunity to emerge from the coronavirus as "heroes" and "good guys," a fund manager told CNBC on Wednesday.

OPEC again slashed its forecast for global oil demand this year due to the coronavirus outbreak and said the reduction may not be the last.

Spain and Italy may have both been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, but it's the former that could see a greater impact on its workforce, according to the International Monetary Fund.

Governments around the world are developing mobile apps to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus using a method known as "contact tracing."

Germany has set out a roadmap for cautiously lifting coronavirus lockdown measures, while in the U.K. there are growing calls for an explicit exit strategy.

The World Health Organization's European regional director said Thursday that in the past 10 days, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Europe has doubled to reach almost 1 million.

Companies have a "moral imperative" to pay dividends to shareholders during the coronavirus pandemic in order to support retirement income, according to Standard Life Aberdeen CEO Keith Skeoch.

A 99-year-old World War II veteran has raised more than £12.5 million ($15.6 million) for workers in the U.K.'s National Health Service during the coronavirus pandemic.

EasyJet can survive a nine-month shutdown thanks to its measures to contend with the coronavirus crisis and is planning for a slow recovery, the British airline said on Thursday.

Coffee prices have rallied over the last month, as global lockdowns fueled panic buying by those stuck at home looking for a caffeine fix, but the outlook for the commodity is far from clear.

In his Easter letter over the weekend, Pope Francis said: "This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage."

All of the 8 countries that Grab operates in have implemented some forms of social distancing restrictions to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.

Australia's unemployment rate in March came in at 5.2% on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to data from the country's bureau of statistics. That was better than expectations of a 5.5% unemployment rate for the month in a Reuters poll.

AI's ability to crunch large amounts of data has allowed governments worldwide to collect information to try and stop the pandemic.

Hong Kong reported four new coronavirus cases on Wednesday — the fourth consecutive day of single-digit growth in cases, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

JPMorgan Asset Management's David Kelly said South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong have a better chance of "escaping from Covid-19 than Europe and the U.S. does."