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• Global cases: More than 2.4 million
• Global deaths: At least 169,794
• US cases: More than 782,100
• US deaths: At least 41,816

The data above was compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Monday it has disbursed $2.9 billion in initial payroll assistance to 54 smaller passenger carrier and two major passenger airlines, while it finalized grant agreements with six major airlines.

The Treasury is initially giving major airlines 50% of funds awarded and releasing the remainder in a series of payments. In total, Treasury is awarding U.S. passenger airlines $25 billion in funds earmarked for payroll costs. Airlines must repay 30% of the funds in low-interest loans and grant Treasury warrants equal to 10% of the loan amount.

Treasury said Monday it has finalized grant agreements with Allegiant Air, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, Spirit Airlines and United Airlines. —Reuters

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom, announced that the state secured tens of thousands of laptops, iPads and other technology support for students learning at home during the Covid-19 pandemic, due to stay-at-home health orders throughout the state.

In a statement, Newsom said donors of the technology included: Amazon, Apple, T-Mobile, Verizon. Meanwhile, Jack Dorsey via #startsmall, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and investors Ann and John Doerr donated a million dollars each to support remote learning in the state.

T-Mobile and Google also previously partnered to donate 100,000 wireless internet hotspot devices for use throughout California. —Lora Kolodny

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Darden shares are under pressure in extended trading, recently down about 3%. After the close, the owner of Olive Garden said it was raising $400 million via a stock offering to help raise cash. The underwriters also have the option to buy another $60 million in shares. Earlier in the day, Cheesecake Factory said that private equity firm Roark Capital was making a $200 million investment.

What other firms could be next in line? Keep an eye on that. Roark recently riased $1.4 billion in a new fund.

Darden had already sought other ways to ensure it has liquidity. It suspended its dividend and has implemented many other cost cuts. It also got a $270 million loan two weeks ago. Some good news for Darden, its cash burn rate has dropped to $20 million per week from the $25 million figure it stated on April 7. On that date too, the company said it had $1 billion in cash on hand.

On the flip side, Darden said today that same-store sales are down 45% quarter to date. That compares with a quarter-to-date decline of 35% it reported two weeks ago. —Robert Hum

San Francisco Mayor London Breed said that her city is now mapping and reporting confirmed Covid-19 cases by ZIP code, as well as by gender, age, race and ethnic group.

As of April 20, San Francisco had completed 11,254 tests, confirmed about 13% or 1,216 positive Covid-19 cases among residents, and reported 20 total deaths due to the virus. According to its latest analysis, people who lived in crowded homes, or who had limited ability to reduce their outings, and those with pre-existing health issues and lower income were at higher risk of a Covid-19 infection in San Francisco. Residents who were 31 to 40 years old represented 23% of confirmed Covid-19 cases. People who identified as Hispanic or Latino comprised 25%, and men represented 60% of confirmed Covid-19 cases overall, the study found.

San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood had the highest number of cases per 10,000 residents, according to the new data tracker.

Breed said on Twitter that the map reflects: "existing health disparities and inequality that existed within our city before COVID-19." —Lora Kolodny

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On Monday, Disney began furloughing workers, temporarily stopping pay to as many as 100,000 workers, according to an estimate by the Financial Times.

Over the last few weeks Disney has laid out its plans to impose unpaid leave, first for some non-union employees, then in a subsequent deal with 43,000 union workers. The media giant will pay 100% of health insurance costs for workers currently covered for up to 12 months. While the majority of those furloughs are at the theme parks, they also extend to all of Disney's other divisions, including the movie studio and TV division. Disney's also asked its senior executives to accept a pay cut, with no set end.

Disney won't comment on the number of furloughs.

Disney's extensive furloughs stand in sharp contrast to the other two media giants – Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, and AT&T, which owns WarnerMedia – which haven't yet announced any furloughs or layoffs.

These are the three largest media conglomerates, in a category above all the others: Disney's market cap is $185 billion, Comcast's is $169 billion, and AT&T's is $222 billion. They do face some similar challenges: all three have movie studios that are suffering from the closure of theaters and all are seeing their ad revenue plummet as live sports has been halted. And all three are working to get ahead of the cord-cutting trend and have new services designed to own that direct-to-consumer relationship.

But the finances of these companies are incredibly different. Parks and Resorts is Disney's largest division, responsible for 35% of its revenue in 2019. That division includes not only theme parks and resorts, but also a cruise line. In contrast, Comcast derived only 5.4% of its revenue from parks such as Universal Studios, and AT&T doesn't own any parks. —Julia Boorstin

Publicly traded companies like Shake Shack are damaging their reputations by trying to access money meant for small businesses, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban said. 

Shake Shack initially secured a $10 million loan through the Paycheck Protection Program, but announced Sunday it would be returning the money after accessing other kinds of capital through the public markets.

"Shake Shack didn't give the money back because they didn't want the money," Cuban said on CNBC's "Fast Money." "They saw what the public outcry was." 

Cuban said he would tell public companies like Shake Shack that took money from the program that"you're going to kill your brand." —Kevin Stankiewicz

The coronavirus pandemic, the threat of airline bankruptcies and a global recession. Now a historic oil glut and price crash are adding to the woes of Boeing and Airbus.

The duopoly that dominates most of the world's aircraft production spent more than a decade racking up record orders for planes they boasted could save millions in fuel. 

"One thing that kept the industry aloft during the great financial meltdown [in 2008] is fuel prices actually rose," said Richard Aboulafia, an aviation analyst at vice president at Teal Group, referring to record oil prices that year.

Rising oil prices can help boost sales of more fuel-efficient aircraft, the opposite of sales trends for larger personal vehicles like SUVs.

The Airbus A320neo and the Boeing 737 Max, each manufacturer's best-selling narrow-body airplanes were developed after the Great Recession when fuel prices were again rising and airlines were on the hunt for models that would help them cut fuel costs.

But manufacturers have lost that selling point, adding to a slate of challenges that are expected to last at least into 2021, if not later, and a sharp turnaround from earlier this year when airlines couldn't get new single-aisle airplanes fast enough. —Leslie Josephs

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reported that, as of Monday April 20, 448 of its employees had tested positive for Covid-19, with 82 fully recovered and 4 having died due to the novel coronavirus. Miami International Airport Supervisory TSA Officer Victor Chung passed away on Sunday, as a result of complications from Covid-19 the TSA said.

With travel dwindling, the TSA has adjusted the way it conducts security screenings at airports, in an attempt to keep its employees, and travelers, as safe as possible from the novel coronavirus. For example, the TSA now asks that travelers wash their hands before and after going through a security line, keeps them six feet apart, and allows them to pack hand sanitizer in containers up to 12 ounces in carry-on luggage. —Lora Kolodny

Stock futures bounced slightly in overnight trading on Monday.

Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 25 points. S&P 500 futures added 0.3%.

The gains came as the more actively-traded June oil contract rebounded by 2%. The May contract, which triggered Monday's stock sell-off with a bizarre move below zero into negative prices, remained negative.

IBM dipped 2.3% in extended trading after the company reported a 3.4% decline in revenue in the first quarter from a year ago amid the spread of coronavirus. Coca-Cola, Netflix and Chipotle are on deck to report earnings on Tuesday. —Yun Li

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced Monday that businesses across the majority of the state will begin reopening as early as next week.

The Republican governor says his mandatory safer-at-home order will expire on April 30, which will pave the way for 89 out of the state's 95 counties to begin opening businesses.

However, Lee's announcement does not apply to the state's counties with the largest cities, including Davidson, Hamilton, Knox, Madison, Shelby and Sullivan counties — areas that are not overseen by Tennessee's Department of Health but have their own public health districts.

"While I am not extending the safer at home order past the end of April, we are working directly with our major metropolitan areas to ensure they are in a position to reopen as soon and safely as possible," Lee said.

Some businesses will be allowed to reopen as early as April 27, but it's unclear exactly which ones will be granted such clearance. Lee told reporters that such details would be finalized by his economy recovery team later this week. —Associated Press

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday rolled out aggressive plans to reopen the state's economy, saying many businesses shuttered to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus may reopen their doors as early as Friday.

Kemp announced that gyms, hair salons, bowling alleys and tattoo parlors are among businesses that may reopen Friday — as long as owners follow strict social distancing and hygiene requirements. By Monday, movie theaters may resume selling tickets and restaurants limited to takeout orders can go back to limited dine-in service.

"In the same way that we carefully closed businesses and urged operations to end to mitigate the virus's spread, today we're announcing plans to incrementally and safely reopen sectors of our economy." Kemp said,

In addition to calls from President Donald Trump, Kemp has heard scattered public calls in Georgia to lift restrictions. —Associated Press

A new study suggests that Covid-19 has a lower fatality rate, but is more widespread in Los Angeles County than previously thought, according to the University of Southern California and the L.A. Department of Public Health.

USC and the Department of Public Health released the preliminary results of antibody testing conducted for their joint study on Monday. Based on the first round of testing, the research team estimates that approximately 4.1% of the county's adult population has antibody to the virus and that approximately 221,000 adults to 442,000 adults in the county have had the infection.This new estimate is 28 to 55 times higher than the 7,994 confirmed cases of Covid-19 reported to the county in early April. The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the county has now surpassed 600, according to the Department of Public Health.

"Though the results indicate a lower risk of death among those with infection than was previously thought, the number of Covid-related deaths each day continues to mount, highlighting the need for continued vigorous prevention and control efforts," said Dr. Paul Simon, chief science officer at L.A. County Department of Public Health and co-lead on the study, in a statement. —Hannah Miller

Stocks fell sharply Monday, retreating after back-to-back weekly gains, as a historic decline in U.S. crude prices raised concerns about the economic damage being done by coronavirus shutdowns. A delay in funding the for the depleted small business rescue loan program also weighed on sentiment.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 592.05 points lower, or 2.5%, 23,650.44. The S&P 500 slid 1.8% to 2,823.16. The Nasdaq Composite pulled back 1% to 8,560.73. (Click here for the latest market news.) 

Boeing fell more than 6% to lead the Dow lower while Chevron and Exxon Mobil dropped more than 4% each. Energy, real estate and utilities were the worst-performing sectors in the S&P 500, falling more than 3% each. —Fred Imbert

The New York State Nurses Association filed suit against the state and two hospital systems, alleging dangerous conditions that put health workers at risk and inflamed the country's largest coronavirus outbreak.

The union, which represents 42,000 nurses across New York, alleged that the New York Department of Health failed to provide health workers with adequate protective equipment and directed health workers infected by Covid-19 to return to work sooner than advised by the state. The suit was filed in New York County Supreme Court.

"More than seven in ten of our nurses are reporting exposure to COVID-19 and most are still untested. These lawsuits were filed to protect our nurses, our patients and our communities from grossly inadequate and negligent protections," NYSNA Executive Director Pat Kane said in a statement. "We cannot allow these dangerous practices to continue." —Will Feuer

The New Jersey Department of Health is ordering Andover Subacute Rehabilitation Center to "cease all admissions" and hire additional staff related to nursing and infectious disease after more than 70 suspected Covid-19 deaths overwhelmed the facility. 

The state's health commissioner, Judith Persichilli, announced during a press briefing that the nursing home must hire "a consultant administrator, a consultant director of nursing and an infection control professional." The facility is to report its progress and staff selection for approval to the department by the end of the day. 

New Jersey state surveyors inspected 21 long-term care facilities "looking at infection control, staffing, availability of personal protective equipment and implementation of an outbreak response plan," said Persichilli. All facilities that have been issued a deficiency report will be required to submit directed plans of correction to the Department of Health.

The state reported 6,986 hospitalizations, including confirmed Covid-19 patients and people under investigation, and 177 new deaths.

"Overall in our mortalities, 40% are associated with long-term care facilities," said Persichilli. —Jasmine Kim

Warner Bros. is making some strategic changes to its movie release schedule in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. With cinemas shuttered and productions of upcoming films suspended, the studio has moved a number of its release dates.

While Christopher Nolan's "Tenant" and the second "Wonder Woman" films will remain in their July and August dates, "King Richard," a biopic starring Will Smith as Venus and Serena Williams' father, has been pushed from November 2020 to November 2021. The change could give the film better chances at becoming an Oscar contender, since it's unclear how the awards season will shake out in the wake of Covid- 19.

The "Sopranos" prequel film "The Many Saints of Newark" has also been pushed from its 2020 release date and will now hit theaters in 2021.

Warner Bros. superhero slate has also been shuffled. "The Batman" has moved to Oct. 1, 2021 from June 25, 2021; "The Flash" will now arrive on June 2, 2022 instead of July 1, 2022; and "Shazam 2" has been moved to Nov. 4, 2022 instead of April 1, 2022.

Additionally, the untitled Elvis Presley biopic from Baz Luhrmann has been moved to Nov. 5, 2021 from Oct. 1, 2021 and "In the Heights," "Scoob" and "Malignant" remain without release dates. —Sarah Whitten

For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S., an entire town will be tested, regardless of whether or not someone is showing symptoms.

The testing is part of a research project put together by the Marin County community of Bolinas and the University of California, San Francisco. Tents are set up next to the town's fire department, and Monday morning volunteers and researchers will collect samples from all 1,600 residents of the community near Stinson Beach.

The organizers of the project want to know how widespread COVID-19 is in the small town of Bolinas and how they can use that information to help other communities. —NBC Bay Area

U.S. crude prices dropped more than 100% and turned negative for the first time in history. The price of the nearest oil futures contract, which expires Tuesday, was the hardest hit, detaching from later month futures contracts, which continued to trade above $20 per barrel.

West Texas Intermediate crude for May delivery fell more than 100% to settle at negative $37.63 per barrel. Meanwhile international benchmark, Brent crude, which has already rolled to the June contract, traded 8.9% lower at $25.58 per barrel. The June WTI contract, which expires on May 19, fell about 18% to trade at $20.43 per barrel. The July contract was roughly 11% lower at $26.18 per barrel. —Eustance Huang, Pippa Stevens

The Senate did not reach a deal on the next coronavirus relief bill in time for a brief Monday session, but set up a vote as soon as Tuesday afternoon to replenish a key small business aid program. 

"At this hour, our Democratic colleagues are still prolonging their discussions with the administration, so the Senate regretfully will not be able to pass more funding for Americans' paychecks today," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said during the pro forma session Monday.

He said the Senate would meet again at 4 p.m. Tuesday to try to pass legislation to replenish the program.  

The House will meet as early as Wednesday to consider an emergency bill, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Sunday. —Jacob Pramuk

U.S. crude prices plunged to their lowest level in history as traders continue to fret over a slump in demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. The price of the nearest oil futures contract, which expires Tuesday, was the hardest hit, detaching from later month futures contracts with a drop of more than 90%. This suggests that some believe there could be a recovery later in the year.

West Texas Intermediate crude for May delivery tanked 95%, or $17.37, to trade at 90 cents per barrel, its lowest level on record. Meanwhile international benchmark, Brent crude, which has already rolled to the June contract, traded 6.2% lower at $26.35 per barrel. The June WTI contract, which expires on May 19, fell about 10% to $22.54 per barrel. The July contract was roughly 5% lower at $28 per barrel. —Eustance Huang, Pippa Stevens

France officially registered more than 20,000 deaths from coronavirus infections, becoming the fourth country to go beyond that threshold after Italy, Spain and the United States, and the pace of increase of fatalities sped up again after several days of slowing.

But the number of people in intensive care fell for the 12th consecutive day, suggesting the national lockdown put in place more than a month ago is having positive effects in containing the disease.

France's public health chief Jerome Salomon told a news briefing the coronavirus-linked fatalities were up 2.8%, at 20,265, versus an increase of 2.0% Sunday. —Reuters

The World Health Organization's top official said partisan politics and lack of global solidarity is helping to fuel the coronavirus pandemic, urging countries to work together as Covid-19 continues to spread throughout the world.

"The cracks between people and the cracks between parties is fueling it," WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press conference at the agency's Geneva headquarters. "Don't use this virus as an opportunity to fight against each other or score political points. It's dangerous. It's like playing with fire."

Without global solidarity, the worst of the pandemic is still "ahead of us," said Tedros. —Berkeley Lovelace Jr. 

April 20 is traditionally the biggest sales day of the year for the cannabis industry, but after seeing strong sales at the start of state shutdown orders, some stores have seen a sales slump.

Particularly hard hit are shops in states heavily dependent on tourists, or where only medical marijuana has been deemed essential, not recreational.

Sales in Colorado reportedly fell 21 percent in the second half of March from a year earlier, and Nevada sales fell 15 percent.

"Some businesses are running into choppy waters," said Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore.

However, these businesses cannot access federal aid because they are illegal in the eyes of the federal government. So Blumenauer and three colleagues from both parties are pushing for the next round of Small Business Administration loans to include the cannabis industry.

"There are a quarter of a million people working in state-legal cannabis businesses, they pay almost $2 billion in taxes," he said, adding that the industry actually pays a disproportionate amount in taxes "because the crazy federal government rules don't allow them to deduct all their business expenses." —Jane Wells

Norwegian Air reported on Monday that four Swedish and Danish subsidiaries have filed for bankruptcy and that it had ended staffing contracts in Europe and the United States, putting some 4,700 jobs at risk.

The airline is seeking to convert debt to equity, money from shareholders and Norwegian state guarantees in a bid to survive the coronavirus crisis.

Earlier Monday Virgin Atlantic said it would survive the pandemic only if it receives financial support from the British government, while Virgin Australia is set to enter voluntary administration, according to sources close to the matter.

Norwegian Air said the four subsidiaries in Sweden and Denmark were companies that employed pilots and cabin crew. The canceled agreements involve firms that provide crews based in Spain, Britain, Finland, Sweden and the United States.

Combined, it said, some 4,700 pilots and cabin crew members would be affected while about 700 pilots and 1,300 cabin crew based in Norway, France and Italy remained unaffected. —Reuters

As the coronavirus pandemic upends the restaurant industry, insurers are denying restaurant companies' claims for payouts that could help their businesses survive. 

States across the country have mandated that eateries serve food only via takeout, delivery or drive-thru lanes to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Some restaurants have chosen to shutter temporarily for the safety of their employees and customers, while others have tried to adapt. Restaurant transactions plunged 41% in the week ended April 5 from a year earlier, according to the NPD Group.

Restaurateurs, like many other business owners, thought the situation would be covered by business interruption insurance, which covers the loss of income suffered by a business after a disaster. But following the SARS outbreak, regulators approved an exception in such policies for viruses and bacterial outbreaks.

Even when an exception is not spelled out in the policy, insurers are denying claims using the argument that the virus does not constitute physical damage to the property.

But political pressure is mounting on insurers to reverse course.

President Donald Trump has signaled that he believes that business interruption policies without specific pandemic exceptions should cover claims related to the coronavirus pandemic. —Amelia Lucas

Coronavirus deaths in New York remain "horrifically high" even though some projections of the state's outbreak suggest it may be on the verge of a "descent," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

Some 478 New Yorkers died from the virus on Sunday, a decline from the daily death toll at the disease's peak when nearly 800 residents a day were dying, Cuomo said. A total of 507 people in the state died on Saturday, and 540 deaths were recorded Friday.

There were 1,380 new Covid-19 hospitalizations in New York on Sunday, a slight tick down from 1,384 on Saturday, Cuomo said at his daily news conference.

He stressed the importance of testing, announcing that the state is "starting the largest antibody testing ever done today."

"Testing is going to require everyone to work together," Cuomo said, noting that the effort will require close cooperation between states and the federal government. —Kevin Breuninger

Spain already has one of the world's highest death tolls from the coronavirus pandemic. But data indicating the true number of fatalities could be much higher is fueling public anger and could cause problems for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's fragile government.

Spain's total deaths rose to 20,852 on Monday. But the figure fails to account for those who were more than likely died by the virus but never tested.

Fernando Simon, the national coronavirus emergency response chief, has acknowledged that the "real number of deaths is hard to know".

The country has been in strict lockdown since March 14, although restrictions have been eased slightly since last week.

But most people remain cooped up in their homes. And sometimes families burying their dead are not even certain what their loved ones died of. In a nursing home near Barcelona, an 85-year-old woman died on April 8 of "possible" Covid-19, said her daughter Amparo, citing a doctor's death certificate.

Amparo, 56, who declined to give her last name, said her mother was not tested. She accused political leaders of not protecting citizens and dismissed the official tally as useless.

"Additional people have died because (politicians) have not made sufficient testing possible so that we can know the reality," she said. "We have left them to die alone."

The government has defended its count — which only includes those tested — and said that tracking confirmed deaths allows it to better study the outbreak's evolution, in line with the World Health Organization practice that only counts confirmed cases. Suspected deaths should be analyzed at a later stage, the government says. —Reuters

Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC that employers need to have specific plans in place for how to safely return workers to the office or shop floor.

That could even mean conducting Zoom video calls in the office to avoid having large meetings, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration said on "Squawk Box."

"In an office, you could split your employees, have half of them work at home, half of them come into the office on alternating days," Gottlieb added. "You should continue to encourage telework where you can." 

Gottlieb said it's more difficult to maintain social distancing in manufacturing plants and other commercial environmen