The plan, entitled "Diplomacy Strong," includes policies on travel, telework, face coverings, as well as social distancing requirements for common spaces such as cafeterias.

Democrats are pushing to pass their next coronavirus relief bill, but Republicans have less urgency as they grow wary of taxpayer spending.

Crimes and arrests are down nationwide during the pandemic as people obey stay-at-home orders and police departments reduce operations. This has led many bail bond companies to lay off entire staff.

Nordstrom announced earlier this week it will be permanently closing 16 of its department stores, after assessing each state that it operates in and the hit it is taking because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Habitat destruction like deforestation and agricultural development on wildland are increasingly forcing disease-carrying wild animals closer to humans, allowing new strains of infectious diseases to thrive.

There is a higher chance of false negatives with an antigen test and a negative result may need to be confirmed with an additional PCR test prior to further treatments.

While some jobs won't be coming back after the lockdown, most, at least for now, will.

Amazon has been combating coronavirus-related issues on multiple fronts for the past several months.

CNBC Beijing Bureau Chief Eunice Yoon reflects, as both a reporter and a Beijing resident, on what daily life has been like during the COVID-19 outbreak in China.

The #AllInChallenge from Fanatics founder Michael Rubin has enlisted celebrities and sports stars including Leonardo DiCaprio, ARod and Mark Cuban to fight COVID-19 food insecurity.

The Omega Family Office chairman and CEO said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that taxes will need to go up regardless of who wins the upcoming presidential election.

International investors believe coronavirus is truly a global phenomenon, and the entire global stock market has been taken down.

Strategists debate how long it will take to contain the coronavirus outbreak as it hits the United States and roils markets.

The New York Stock Exchange is prepared for the possibility that someone working on its trading floor may contract coronavirus.

Under a program called the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility, the Federal Reserve will buy corporate bond and exchange traded funds.

Robert Whaley, who created the original VIX in 1992, says the most important thing for markets is to reduce the uncertainty around the coronavirus crisis.

Cashin was in a car accident in early February (he was not driving) and has been recuperating. We spoke to him by phone from his home.

"I hope it's not that bad, but we should assume it will be until we know otherwise," Gates wrote in an article published Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Concerns over coronavirus have roiled markets and torched hundreds of billions in paper wealth from the world's billionaires over the past month. But last night's declines could be the largest overnight wealth loss in nearly a decade.

Susie Buffett sat next to someone who had just returned from a trip to Spain and subsequently rested positive for COVID-19, the Omaha World-Herald reported.

"Our death toll curve is now worse than when China was at the same stage," Haven CEO Dr. Atul Gawande tells CNBC.

Warren Buffett said he is optimistic that the U.S. economy will re-emerge even after being dealt a body blow by the coronavirus pandemic.

Buffett said Berkshire sold its entire stake in United, American, Southwest and Delta Airlines, worth more than $4 billion on December 31.

Warren Buffett has again ditched the airline sector as coronavirus threatens to be a challenge too big for him to stomach.

Berkshire Hathaway's 2020 annual shareholder meeting, the "Woodstock for Capitalists," was hosted virtually for the first time ever.

Kim Forrest, founder and chief investment officer at Bokeh Capital Partners, and David Ellison, portfolio manager at Hennessy Funds, join 'The Exchange' to discuss markets.

Dr. Simon Rego, Montefiore Health System in New York, on the mental health crisis spurred by the coronavirus pandemic.

Amazon will invest heavily in Covid-19 testing for its employees.

United Airlines had reported a first-quarter pretax loss earlier this month.

Apple did not issue guidance for the quarter ending in June, as it usually does. The company withdrew guidance for its second-quarter in February as the Covid-19 coronavirus spread in China.

Berkshire's first-quarter net loss totaled $49.75 billion. A year earlier, net earnings totaled $21.66 billion.

Online furniture retailer Wayfair's net loss widened during the first quarter, as its sales surged nearly 20% from a year ago.

The Cheesecake Factory swung to a loss in its first quarter as the coronavirus pandemic forced the company to close its dining rooms and furlough thousands of its workers.

Citing uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic that's shuttered much of the dine-in restaurant industry around the world, the company suspended its full-year forecast.

The Covid-19 outbreak cut deeply into GM's performance, costing the largest U.S. automaker $1.4 billion before taxes during the first three months.

Lyft reports its first-quarter results on Wednesday after the bell.

Peloton's revenue surged 66% during the fiscal third quarter, as more people purchased its fitness equipment and tuned into its live classes, to try to break a sweat while stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic.

John Bilton, global head of multi-asset strategy at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, discusses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on stock valuations.

Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay, discusses the chemicals company's first-quarter earnings.

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic discusses the EU's response to the Covid-19 pandemic and how the country has handled the crisis.

EU Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni discusses the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic across the euro zone.

Keith Barr, CEO of InterContinental Hotels Group, discusses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the company.

Stephen Isaacs, chairman of the investment committee at Alvine Capital Management, discusses the market recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

HSBC's first-quarter earnings were not surprising given the global economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, says Filippo Alloatti, senior credit analyst at Federated Hermes. He also discusses the bank's decision to suspend share buybacks and dividend payouts for now.

Miguel Azevedo of Citi discusses the coronavirus pandemic's impact on Middle Eastern nations, mergers and acquisitions, and economic activity in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

With ten million test kits now secured by the Mindaroo Foundation and its business partners, Australia will have the "abundant capacity" to test widely for infections to "end the virus, not the economy," says Andrew Forrest, the foundation's co-founder and chairman, and former CEO of Fortescue Metals Group.

Steven Glass of Pengana International Fund says there is a wide disconnect between fundamentals and market moves and we are currently witnessing a bear-market rally.

The coronavirus has been a massive blow for markets across the globe. But Daniel Gerard of State Street says tech stocks in North Asia still offer plenty of opportunities for investors.

It's going to be a "very difficult" period for the Middle East given coronavirus pandemic, but this could be a "golden opportunity" for economies to implement reforms and become more resilient, says Alain Bejjani, CEO of Majid Al Futtaim.