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This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. Global cases: More than 1.27 million Global deaths: At least 69,300 Top 5 countries: United States (337,072), Spain (131,646), Italy (128,948), Germany (100,123), and France (93,773) The data above was compiled by Johns Hopkins University as of 8 a.m. Beijing time.  All times below are

An American Airlines passenger jet (Boeing 737) lands at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. Robert Alexander | Archive Photos | Getty Images American Airlines on Sunday slashed service to the main airports serving New York City, as the region, a coronavirus hotspot, becomes more isolated. The Fort Worth, Texas-based airline said it will

The COVID-19 outbreak has laid waste to entire sectors of the global economy, but none faster than the cruise industry. The pandemic has basically shut down the cruise-ship business, with the three largest publicly traded cruise companies suspending some, if not all, of their operations. Carnival, the world’s largest cruise operator, has been at the

A shopper and cashier both wear masks, gloves and the cashier also has on a plastic visor at the checkout station Pat’s Farms grocery store on March 31, 2020 in Merrick, New York. Al Bello | Getty Images With most Americans living under-stay-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic, trips to the grocery store are one

A worker uses a thermometer to check the temperature of a customer as she enters a Starbucks shop as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Beijing, China January 30, 2020. A worker uses a thermometer to check the temperature of a customer as she enters a Starbucks shop as

Emanuel Simhayev, owner and pharmacist at Get Well Rx in Astoria, Queens, consults with a customer purchasing face masks. April 2, 2020 Emanuel Simhayev’s small pharmacy is short-staffed these days. Most of his employees, worried about getting exposed to the coronavirus, are no longer coming to work. Simhayev, 33, and his technician Evelyn Quirindongo, 53,

People wearing facemasks, amid concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, talk on a street in front of a poster for the Disney film “Mulan” in Vientiane on March 11, 2020. Mladen Antonov | AFP | Getty Images Disney is making drastic changes to its 2020 movie slate in the wake of the

American Airlines passenger planes crowd a runway where they are parked due to flight reductions to slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Tulsa International Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. March 23, 2020. Nick Oxford | REUTERS U.S. airline executives face a test to see which sacrifices they are willing to make in exchange

Ford Motor employee Pat Tucker, 55, assembles face shields for healthcare workers on April 2, 2020 at a subsidiary facility of the automaker in Plymouth, Michigan. Ford Within days, Pat Tucker went from producing car parts for Ford Motor to assembling transparent face shields to assist health-care workers during the coronavirus pandemic. The 55-year-old grandmother

A contractor enters a Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. store at the Hudson Yards development in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. Demetrius Freeman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Neiman Marcus is stepping up preparations to seek bankruptcy protection, after the coronavirus pandemic forced the debt-laden U.S. luxury department store chain to close its

Medical workers bring in patients at a special coronavirus intake tent at Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park section of Brooklyn which has seen an upsurge of coronavirus patients on April 02, 2020 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Some 35% of all coronavirus tests administered in New York and New Jersey

A healthcare worker attends to a person in the back of a vehicle at the Scripps Clinic as they provide drive-up care due to the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in La Jolla, California, U.S., March 17, 2020. Mike Blake | Reuters San Diego-based hospital system Scripps Health is preparing for coronavirus cases

Fog envelops the Manhattan skyline as the Brooklyn Bridge sits nearly empty of pedestrian traffic in the midst of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on March 20, 2020 in New York City. Victor J. Blue | Getty Images New York City has become the epicenter of coronavirus in the U.S with over 47,000 cases. The pandemic

A luxury sports car sits on display in a dealership in Manhattan on November 30, 2017 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The coronavirus, led by stay-at-home regulations, brought U.S. vehicle sales to a grinding halt in many areas of the country and the worst is still yet to come, according to

An American Airlines flight attendant serves drinks to passengers after departing Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Robert Alexander | Archive Photos | Getty Images Flight attendant unions warned Wednesday that government stakes in airlines in exchange for payroll protections could render the coronavirus aid unattractive and cost thousands of jobs. Congress last week approved $32 billion

California Gov. Gavin Newsom updates the state’s response to the coronavirus at the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova, Calif., Monday, March 23, 2020. Rich Pedroncelli | AP California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday said 25,000 people signed up for the state’s new Health Corps site, in one day. The state is now

A cashier wears gloves while scanning the groceries of a customer at a Whole Foods in Cambridge, MA on March 24, 2020. Erin Clark | The Boston Globe via Getty Images Temporary wage hikes. Special bonuses. Paid sick time. In recent weeks, tensions are on the rise between grocery workers and their employers, spurring many

A visitor looks down an empty hallway at The Fashion Mall at Keystone, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in Indianapolis. Simon Property Group, the largest owner of shopping malls in the nation, is closing all of its malls and retail properties because of the coronavirus outbreak. Darron Cummings | AP The biggest U.S. mall owner, Simon

Ford Motor and GE Healthcare plan to produce 50,000 ventilators within the next 100 days at a facility in Michigan to assist with the coronavirus pandemic. Production of the critical care devices is expected to begin with 500 United Auto Workers union members the week of April 20, according to executives at both companies. Ford’s Rawsonville

Delta Air Lines passenger planes are seen parked due to flight reductions made to slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. March 25, 2020. Elijah Nouvelage | Reuters Employees of airlines struggling with a record plunge in demand won a reprieve in the $2 trillion coronavirus bill: