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Protesters hold signs encouraging people to demand that businesses be allowed to open up, and people allowed to go back to work, at the Country Club Plaza on April 20, 2020 in Kansas City, Missouri. - AFP

Wall Street and much of the Financial District stands empty as the coronavirus keeps financial markets and businesses mostly closed on April 20, 2020 in New York City. - AFP

A Labuan Health Department officer performed an oropharyngeal swab test on a passenger upon arrival at the Labuan International Ferry Terminal in a bid to curb the COVID-19 outbreak. - BERNAMA pic

The sun sets behind smoke rising from the LyondellBasell-Houston Refining plant in Houston, Texas. -AFP

FILE PIX: Sabah Health director Datuk Dr Christina Rundi said 64 per cent or 196 people out of total cases of 306 reported yesterday were either boys or men.

A general view shows the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on April 17, 2020. - The P4 epidemiological laboratory was built in co-operation with French bio-industrial firm Institut Merieux and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The facility is among a handful of labs around the world cleared to handle Class 4 pathogens (P4) - dangerous ...

Internet service installations and maintenance works are now permitted at premises located in green zones with no confirmed Covid-19 cases. - BERNAMA pic

KUALA LUMPUR: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, went to the ground last night to observe the traffic situation in the federal capital during the third phase of the Movement Control Order (MCO).

(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 19, 2019 people chant slogans as a young man recites a poem, illuminated by mobile phones, before the opposition's direct dialog with people in Khartoum. - AFP photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba won the World Press Photo (WPP) Of the Year and the first prize in General News-Singles category on April 16, 2020. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

Default rates in Malaysia's corporate bond market have declined significantly to below one per cent up to last year, since the Asian Financial Crisis, according to Securities Commission. NST pix by Aizuddin Saad