Large portions of the United States are under orders to stay home or self-quarantine to slow the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus. A new study found people are moving less and sleeping more.
The first patients in a "historic" drug trial to test treatments for the coronavirus have been enrolled in Norway and Spain, World Health Organization officials announced Friday.
"Be in no doubt that I can continue ... to communicate with all my top team, to lead the national fight back against coronavirus," Johnson said in a video posted to social media.
Volkswagen may have to cut jobs if the coronavirus pandemic is not brought under control as the carmaker is still spending about 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) a week, said CEO Herbert Diess.
While European markets have plummeted over the past month as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic becomes more alarming, a handful of stocks have bucked the trend.
The coronavirus death toll has surpassed 8,000 in Italy, erasing some of the hope seen earlier this week when the number of reported deaths seemed to have slowed down.
While most of us will have to settle for self-isolation in our own home or apartment, the rich are hunkering down in state-of-the-art bunkers and fleeing to private islands to escape the coronavirus.
More than $2.6 billion worth of orders in Bangladesh's garment sector has been canceled and new cancellations are coming up, according to the country's commerce minister.
Singapore announced stiff fines and jail on Thursday night for people who do not observe social distancing measures put in place to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
Reserve Bank of India met this week and cut the repo rate — or the rate at which it lends to commercial banks — by 75 basis points from 5.15% to 4.4% on Friday.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he spoke with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and discussed "in great detail" about the coronavirus pandemic, which has so far killed more than 24,000 people globally.
Demographics, social behavior and lower testing capacity are just some of the reasons why Italy and Spain have the highest number of deaths from the coronavirus, health experts told CNBC.
Chinese President Xi Jinping called on G-20 leaders for greater coordination to restore confidence in global growth in face of the impact of the coronavirus, according to a state media transcript of his remarks on Thursday.