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"With regards to recovery and then reinfection, I believe we do not have the answers to that. That is an unknown," Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO's emergencies program, said at a press conference Monday.

"While Covid-19 accelerates very fast, it decelerates much more slowly. In other words, the way down is much slower than the way up," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference Monday.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is holding a press conference Monday to update the public on the coronavirus outbreak.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 190200 people in the state as of Monday morning.

WHO is holding a briefing on the Covid-19 pandemic.

Russia reported 2,558 new infections on Monday while in Spain, the government is lifting some lockdown measures.

Yergin said there were two main factors driving the turnaround to the deal that just six weeks ago "would not have seemed possible."

OPEC and its allies, known collectively as OPEC+, finalized an agreement to cut production by 9.7 million barrels per day — the single largest output cut in history.

Russia reported its biggest daily jump in new coronaviruses cases so far on Sunday at 2,186, bringing the country's total confirmed cases to 15,770.

Covid-19 has infected more than 1,760,000 people around the world as of Saturday, killing at least 107,000 people.

Total confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. has reached 501,615, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

New York state is the epicenter of the outbreak in the country and has reported more cases than Italy, Spain, France and Germany.

COVID-19 has infected more than 1,650,200 people around the world as of Friday, killing at least 100,376 people.

UnitedHealth Group was hired to help process and expedite the initial $30 billion tranche of payments.

Trump said early estimates indicated the U.S. would see 100,000 to 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus and up to 2.2 million if the U.S. didn't take any action.

Lifting stay-at-home orders too soon could lead to a "deadly resurgence" and there's been an "alarming acceleration" of cases in other countries, WHO officials said.

New York saw more than 700 deaths from Covid-19 on Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

The number of new confirmed cases in Germany continued the upward trend from the past few days. Infections jumped by 5,323 in the past 24 hours to a total of 113,525, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases.

Markets in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and India were closed for the Good Friday holiday.