Coronavirus Watch: 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed

The Olympics are being postponed, the number of Americans facing lockdowns surpassed 100 million, congressional negotiations on an economic stimulus package stalled, and the stock market plunged again.

It's Monday, and this is Coronavirus Watch from the Paste BN Network.

Here's the latest news, as of 2:30 p.m. ET:

• Veteran International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound told Paste BN Sports on Monday afternoon that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are going to be postponed, likely to 2021, with the details to be worked out in the next four weeks.
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate would vote again to take up the stalled stimulus bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled her counter-offer to the GOP economic stimulus plan at 2 p.m. EDT. The measure included priorities congressional Democrats have been pushing for in round-the-clock negotiations with GOP leaders and the Trump administration.
• The U.S. reported more than 35,200 confirmed cases, trailing only Italy and China. The national death toll reached 473 across 34 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. Globally, more than 15,300 people have died of the virus and 350,000 people have been confirmed to have it, according to the Johns Hopkins University data dashboard.
• More than 100 million Americans are in lockdown as states and counties across the nation institute "shelter-in-place" and "stay-at-home" orders. Globally, more than 1.5 billion people around the world are in forced or voluntary lockdown. Here's what that means for you.
• President Donald Trump signaled in a tweet overnight that he is considering lifting social distancing guidelines that may be slowing the spread of the coronavirus but are hurting the economy.
• Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that he and Trump sometimes disagree on details, but they don't disagree on substantive issues in an interview with Science magazine.
• Stocks opened lower as the New York Stock Exchange went virtual, its iconic trading floor shut down for the first time in NYSE's 228-year history. For the latest news about COVID-19's financial and economic impact, subscribe to The Daily Money newsletter.

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— N'dea Yancey-Bragg, Trending News Reporter, @NdeaYanceyBragg