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The new sites will use an Abbott Laboratories device that makes it possible for people to get test results in minutes.

Major airlines last Friday, including Delta, JetBlue, American, United and Spirit, said they had applied for federal aid aimed at covering payroll.

Experts agree that you should be wearing a mask or cloth face covering to avoid transmitting the COVID-19 disease. But once you have a mask, you have to focus on wearing it properly. Here, an expert explains how to stay protected while wearing a mask.

Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn claims it has created enough jobs in Wisconsin to begin collecting on the multibillion-dollar incentive package the state offered to attract the company's first U.S. manufacturing facility. But the state is not turning over any money just yet.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding his daily press conference on the COVID-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 151,079 people in the state as of Thursday morning.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that he believed it was possible that the U.S. could open back up next month, following the effective halt of the economy because of the coronavirus.

These are the three things to focus on from OPEC and the G-20 meetings over the next 48 hours to discuss global energy markets.

While Italy looks to have overcome the worst of the coronavirus outbreak in terms of daily infections and deaths, recent hopes of a peak elsewhere in Europe have been dashed in recent days.

"We care about the life passing every single minute unnecessarily because we couldn't unite to fight this virus," he said.

European markets traded higher Thursday as investors digested the latest U.S. jobless data and the coronavirus pandemic remained in focus.

Allianz, which is one of the main insurers for entertainment companies, estimates that Hollywood studios paid $400 million in premiums last year to cover "unforeseeable events." Now the bill is coming due.

"We know we're not out of the woods; it's too early," de Blasio said Wednesday.

Dow futures turned positive Thursday after the Federal Reserve unveiled details of its much-anticipated Main Street lending program and other initiatives.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has spent a third night in intensive care in a London hospital although his condition is said to be improving.

"I think we need to be very careful that we don't pull back some of these measures too soon," former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Thursday.

Russia has reported a record one-day rise of 1,459 new cases of coronavirus Thursday, making the total number of confirmed cases to 10,131.

The euro zone is making another attempt at agreeing on new fiscal stimulus to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, after 16 hours of talks earlier this week failed to produce any outcome.

The stock chart of Wendy's could forecast a lot about what's ahead for shares of McDonald's, says JC O'Hara, chief market technician at MKM Partners.

Britain will be hit harder by the coronavirus crisis than any other European country, researchers have predicted, with the U.K. expected to see more than 60,000 deaths from COVID-19.

The comments by Australia's finance minister Mathias Cormann came after S&P Global Ratings downgraded the country's outlook to negative from stable.