Thousands of New York City stores are boarding up their doors as they face indefinite closure amid the coronavirus crisis. The Big Apple is now the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the US.

GameStop has closed all of its 5,700 retail locations to protect customers and employees from possible exposure to COVID-19, reversing a previous policy to try and stay open during the pandemic.

FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor said the administration was going to use the Defense Production Act 'today' to procure critical medical gear, but did not specify precisely where or how.

'I think what the President was trying to do, he was making an aspirational projection to give people some hope,' Fauci said of the proposed April 12 target date on CNN Thursday night.

Sheila Ferguson was self-isolating at home in Kent for the third week when she heard on the news that Prince Charles had contracted coronavirus. She was beside herself with worry.

'If you start walling off areas all across the country it would just be totally bizarre, counter-productive, anti-American, anti-social,' said Cuomo in an interview with CNN on Saturday.

Nancy Pelosi accused Donald Trump of fooling around as the cases and deaths from coronavirus in the U.S. continue to skyrocket. 'As the president fiddles, people are dying,' she asserted.

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo revealed his diagnosis on Tuesday saying he had been exposed in recent days to people who had subsequently tested positive for COVID-19.

Government experts are considering a recommendation that all Americans begin wearing face coverings while in public - although only once there are enough for medical professionals.

Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday blamed the Centers for the Disease Control and Prevention and China for the United States' slow response to the coronavirus. 

Anchor Don Lemon, 54, broke down in tears on Tuesday's episode of CNN Tonight while speaking about how fellow host Chris Cuomo, 49, tested positive for COVID-19.

Last Sunday, senior immunologist Anthony Fauci issued a cautious prediction that COVID-19 could claim 100,000 to 200,000 lives in America.

Chicken soup has been applauded by CNN host Chris Cuomo for breaking his coronavirus fever as he warns of the 'lies' being sold as fake cures on the internet.

Baldwin, 40, announced her diagnosis in an Instagram post on Friday afternoon.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is urging the federal government to get on a 'war time footing' to handle the coronavirus and says that if they don't, thousands will die unnecessarily. 

Maura Lewinger shared her indescribable grief after losing her husband Joseph Lewinger, a much-loved NYC high school principal, to the killer virus on CNN Friday night.

The governor of Louisiana said Sunday that he wasn't told to cancel the massive Mardi Gras celebrations at the end of February, even though governors were briefed on the coronavirus threat weeks earlier.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, whose mother Arlene Stringer-Cuevas died aged 86 of complications from COVID-19, spoke out about the devastating loss on Monday.

CNN host Chris Cuomo is feeling 'slightly better' after contracting coronavirus while in New York City, according to an update posted by his wife, Cristina Cuomo.

Coronavirus -stricken CNN host Chris Cuomo has shared X-rays of his lungs which show the effects of the virus up close.

Chris Cuomo ripped into President Trump during his CNN show on Tuesday as he called for leaders to be truthful and realistic in how they talk about the coronavirus crisis.

Former CNN and SBS news anchor Anjali Rao was announced as a one of the new additions for the fifth season of Real Housewives of Melbourne.

Anthony Fauci suggested Sunday morning that more lives could have been saved if Donald Trump had initiated a coronavirus shut down earlier than mid-March.

A sailor who tested positive for coronavirus on board USS Theodore Roosevelt has died after he was put into isolation housing in Guam last month and entered the ICU Thursday.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Cuomo told Howard Stern that he did not believe President Trump (left) was happy that his brother, Chris (right), contracted the coronavirus.

Dr. Fauci back-peddled on his criticisms of the US' initial response to the coronavirus outbreak, saying he 'used the wrong words' after suggesting the president could've been more proactive.

Chris Cuomo, who has been in quarantine while suffering with from coronavirus, launched an attack on 'hyper-partisanship' on network television and slammed his own CNN show.

The Navy confirmed that the sailor - who has not been publicly named - was admitted to the ICU at Naval Hospital Guam on Tuesday due to a shortness of breath.

Former Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on Monday warned of escalating food supply chain disruptions as concerns about future shortages grow amid the coronavirus pandemic.

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, who late last month revealed he had tested positive for coronavirus, has announced his wife Cristina has also been infected with the illness.

CNN anchor Cuomo this week announced his wife Cristina caught the virus, after revealing that he had tested positive last month.

Joe Biden stumbled through a CNN interview on Thursday. Donald Trump Jr. caught wind of the segment, sharing the clip with his followers on Twitter, writing: 'Debates gonna be [fire].'

Steven Mnuchin said that a deal for small business relief could be reached within Democrats as early as Sunday night as he continues negotiations with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.

President Trump furiously defended his response to combating the coronavirus, showing clips of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo praising him and yelling at reporters who questioned his record.

Anderson Cooper had revealed on-air that with barbershops and hair salons closed in New York City due to the COVID-19 outbreak, he attempted to give himself a haircut

Lawmakers and the WH reached an agreement Tuesday to replenish the payment protection program after Democrats blocked the measure for not including enough relief for other programs.

President Donald Trump claimed that reports of North Korea's Kim Jong Un being gravely ill was 'fake news' from CNN during Thursday's daily COVID-19 briefing

Social media users have accused Cristina Cuomo of 'stupidity' after sharing on her lifestyle blog that she poured half a cup of Clorox in her bath twice a week as a coronavirus treatment.

A 1993 clip has emerged alleging to show former Joe Biden staffer Tara Reade's mother Jeanette Altimus calling into Larry King about the former Vice President's alleged sexual assault of her daughter.

Tara Reade, 56, came forward late last month to accuse Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in the 1993 when she worked as an aide for the then-senator from Delaware.

'China did a lot of things right at the beginning, like any country where a virus first shows up,' the Microsoft co-founder told CNN on Sunday. Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen in the inset photo.

Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan, who has appeared on The Apprentice alongside the president, slammed Donald Trump for lacking the 'kind of leadership needed in a crisis'.

CNN's Chris Cuomo announced Monday night that he is now coronavirus-free just one month after becoming infected with the illness.

Cristina Cuomo, wife of CNN journalist Chris Cuomo, has defended her use of holistic treatments against Covid-19. In a now deleted post the blogger also recommended a $300 vitamin C intravenous drip.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has decried protests staged inside the state's Capitol building last week, saying the event acted as a reminder of some of the most 'awful' parts of US history.

Chris Christia, Former New Jersey governor (pictured) has said Americans are 'gonna have to' accept the economy reopening before the coronavirus has been brought under control.

The World Health Organization on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump's 'speculative' claims that COVID-19 came out of lab in Wuhan.

When Cuomo (pictured) asked Doctor Fauci why he had called him every day Fuaci said: 'Well, first of all because you're a friend. We have a professional relationship, but you're a friend.'

EXCLUSIVE BY SAMI MOKBEL: Saido Berahino will play for Nimes in their pre season game against Toulouse today while he waits for his Stoke departure to be finalised.

Stoke City are facing a legal fight after failing to pay a mandated agent when they signed their former striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting.