This is CNBC’s live blog covering all the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak. All times below are in Eastern time. This blog will be updated throughout the day as the news breaks. Global cases: At least 1,139,207 Global deaths: At least 60,874 US cases: At least 278,458 US deaths: At least 7,159 The data […]
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Man charged with billing for fraudulent test claims
Items from a COVID-19 test kit are displayed for a photograph. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal prosecutors have criminally charged a Georgia man for allegedly conspiring to defraud federal and private health-care benefit programs “by submitting fraudulent testing claims” for coronavirus and genetic cancer screenings, authorities announced Monday. The man, 49-year-old Erik […]
Israel, China, Singapore use surveillance tech to track Covid-19
From Israel to South Korea to China, governments around the world are using technology to track the coronavirus outbreak as they race to stem its spread. But how long will it last and is this an infringement of privacy, rights groups have asked. In China, government-installed CCTV cameras point at the apartment door of those under […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Tesla’s Elon Musk pledge donations
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., left, speaks as Marc Benioff, chairman and co-chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc., listens during a keynote at the 2019 DreamForce conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. technology CEOs including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg […]
Facebook offers free ads to WHO, will remove flase claims
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the F8 Facebook Developers conference on April 30, 2019 in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that the social network will give the World Health Organization free advertising for its coronavirus response and take down false claims about the virus. Users […]
‘We have it totally under control’
“We have it completely beneath management,” Trump informed “Squawk Box” co-host Joe Kernen in an interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “It’s one individual coming in from China. We have it beneath management. It’s going to be simply advantageous.” The CDC on Tuesday mentioned a Snohomish County, Washington state, resident who […]
Demand Justice launches campaign against Susan Collins over Kavanaugh
Sen. Susan Collins continues dealing with backlash from Democrats for her 2018 vote to substantiate Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, placing the Maine Republican on the defensive as she seeks a fifth time period. The progressive group Demand Justice introduced Tuesday that it’ll deploy tons of of hundreds of on a […]