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A worker wearing a protective face mask to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus sprays disinfectant as a vehicle prepares to enter to an office building carpark in Beijing, Monday, April 13, 2020. China on Monday reported over 100 new cases of coronavirus infection, dozens of them imported. Of the new domestic cases, several were recorded in the province of Heilongjiang bordering Russia and southern business hub of Guangzhou. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Virus cases about 2M worldwide; few new hot spots

By ERIC TUCKER and ARITZ PARRA and JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

In this Aug. 2, 2016, photo provided by Christopher Pasatieri, New York Post photographer Anthony J. Causi is shown before a New York Mets baseball game in New York. Causi, a highly skilled and exceedingly popular sports photographer for The New York Post who covered the city’s teams for 25 years, died Sunday, April 12, 2020, from the new coronavirus. He was 48. (Christopher Pasatieri via AP)

Popular NYC sports photographer dead at 48 from COVID-19

By MIKE FITZPATRICK - Associated Press

A man crosses a street against the backdrop of One World Trade Center at dusk in New York, on Saturday, March 21, 2020. Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the city, a place of familiar landmarks and well-trodden streets, has been thrown off kilter by an invisible adversary that is taking some of its people away and terrifying the rest. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

AP PHOTOS: Ghostly virus-era NYC, captured from a motorbike

By TED ANTHONY - Associated Press

Pedestrians enjoy the warm weather on the boardwalk at Coney Island in New York, Sunday, April 12, 2020. Amid some signs of hope that the coronavirus infection rate is plateauing, New York is still wrapping up its worst week in deaths so far since the outbreak began. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

A month after New York’s 1st virus death, toll hits 10,000

By MARINA VILLENEUVE and KAREN MATTHEWS and MICHAEL HILL - Associated Press

People gather at the Mount Davidson cross in San Francisco, Sunday, April 12, 2020. Mount Davidson's annual Easter Sunrise Service was canceled for San Francisco's shelter in place orders over coronavirus concers. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

In divergent Easter celebrations, prayers for virus victims

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Workers wearing personal protective equipment bury bodies in a trench on Hart Island, Thursday, April 9, 2020, in the Bronx borough of New York. On Thursday, New York City’s medical examiner confirmed that the city has shortened the amount of time it will hold on to remains to 14 days from 30 days before they will be transferred for temporary internment at a City Cemetery. Earlier in the week, Mayor Bill DeBlasio said that officials have explored the possibility of temporary burials on Hart Island, a strip of land in Long Island Sound that has long served as the city’s potter’s field. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

From the files: Isle used for virus burials has long history

By ADAM GELLER - Associated Press

In this April 10, 2020, photo, Detroit Police Capt. Jevon Johnson, right, talks with Lt. Pride Henry outside the TCF Center, in Detroit. The coronavirus pandemic that has crippled big-box retailers and mom and pop shops worldwide may be making a dent in illicit business, too. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Crime drops worldwide amid coronavirus crisis

By Stefanie Dazio, Franklin Briceno and Michael Tarm - Associated Press

Archbishop Timothy Dolan, right, leads an Easter Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, devoid of congregants, in New York, Sunday, April 12, 2020. Due to coronavirus concerns, no congregants were allowed to attend the Mass but it was broadcast live on a local TV station. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

After worst week in pandemic deaths, NY sees signs of hope

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How Congress’ CARES Act disincentives workers and hinders America’s path to reopening

By Lewis K Uhler and Peter J. Ferrara

The Easter Bunny encourages people to wear a mask during an Easter parade in Orlando, Fla., on Saturday, April 11, 2020. The parade, conducted with &quot;social distancing&quot; to prevent the spread of coronavirus. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

The week that was: Stories from the coronavirus saga

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this April 9, 2020, photo, amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, Dallas ISD police officers Mylon Taylor, left, and Gary Pierre push a car that ran out of gas while waiting in line for the weekly school meal pick up for students in Dallas. The coronavirus pandemic that has crippled big-box retailers and mom and pop shops worldwide may be making a dent in illicit business, too. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Crime drops around the world as COVID-19 keeps people inside

By STEFANIE DAZIO and FRANKLIN BRICENO and MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

In this March 31, 2020 file photo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at the USTA Indoor Training Center. On April 11, 2020, Mr. de Blasio announced the city's public schools would remain closed through the end of the academic year. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File) **FILE**

Are schools open? Governor, NYC mayor give different answers

By KAREN MATTHEWS and BRIAN MAHONEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, June 25, 1988 file photo, people watch as almost 1,500 quilt panels bearing the names of New York area residents who have died of AIDS are unfolded on the Great Lawn in New York's Central Park. The panels, which are expected to be incorporated into the national Names Project AIDS Quilt, include 75 bearing the names of metropolitan area infants. (AP Photo/Wilbur Funches, File)

COVID-19 and AIDS crisis: NYC gays see parallels, contrasts

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019, file photo, California attorney Michael Avenatti arrives at federal court to enter a plea to an indictment charging him with trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike in New York. A judge has allowed Avenatti to be temporarily freed from a federal jail in New York City and to ride out the coronavirus scare at a friend's house in Los Angeles. On Friday, April 10, 2020, U.S. District Judge James Selna said Avenatti may stay at the home of Jay Mannheimer, near Venice Beach, during the 90-day release period but he first must get tested for COVID-19 and be quarantined for 14 days at a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Judge releases Michael Avenatti from jail over virus threat

By Associated Press - Associated Press

Subway riders, wearing personal protective equipment due to COVID-19 concerns, step off a train, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

A conundrum for New Yorkers: Social distancing in the subway

By TOM HAYS and MARSHALL RITZEL - Associated Press

A temporary hospital has been set up in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, as overflow for local hospitals that are reaching capacity, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in New Orleans, Saturday, April 4, 2020. Phase one of the operation can house 1,000 patients with the capability to double that capacity as needed. The facility will open April 6. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) **FILE**

CDC study: 6.5 days is average time for doubling of coronavirus cases

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

Signage urging social distancing is seen in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. While New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York could be reaching a &quot;plateau&quot; in hospitalizations, he warned that gains are dependent on people continuing to practice social distancing. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Even as toll grows, NY hospitals hope fever is breaking

By JIM MUSTIAN and MICHAEL R. SISAK and MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

Evangelist Franklin Graham will offer a special Easter morning service from an emergency field hospital in the middle of New York City's Central Park. His message will be aired Sunday on Fox News. (Image courtesy of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association/Fox News).

Franklin Graham to offer Easter message from emergency field hospital in Central Park

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

In this March 24, 2020, file photo, medical staff members check a ventilator in protective suits at the care unit for the new COVID-19 infected patients inside the Koranyi National Institute of Pulmonology in Budapest. As health officials around the world push to get more ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, some doctors are moving away from using the breathing machines when they can. (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP, File)

Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

In this April 7, 2020, photo, Erica Harris, right, and her daughter Jordan, wear their protective masks as they walk back home after getting a lunch and homework from the child’s school on Chicago’s Southside in Chicago. As the coronavirus tightened its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population, black Americans. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Outcry over racial data grows as virus slams black Americans

By KAT STAFFORD and MEGHAN HOYER and AARON MORRISON - Associated Press