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Patients wait in line while wearing protective masks and gloves for a COVID-19 test at Brooklyn Hospital Center, Sunday, March 29, 2020, in Brooklyn borough of 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)

What to know about the coronavirus numbers in New York

By MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) departs Naval Station Norfolk, Va., March 28, 2020. Comfort is deploying in support of the nation's COVID-19 response efforts and will serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients currently admitted to shore-based hospitals. This allows shore-based hospitals to focus their efforts on COVID-19 cases. (Petty Officer 1st Class Joshua Sheppard/U.S. Navy via AP)

‘Staggering’: New York virus death toll rises above 1,200

By TOM HAYS and MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

In this March 28, 2020, photo provided by the New York City Mayoral Photography Office, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio helps load a carton containing some of 250,000 face masks into a truck on a loading dock at U.N. headquarters. The U.N. donated the masks for New York City's fight against the coronavirus. (Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office via AP)

Bill de Blasio, NYC mayor: ‘Sunday is D-Day — we need help by Sunday’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Cars make their way to New Jersey as they enter the Holland Tunnel from Canal St., Sunday, March 29, 2020, in New York. On Saturday, after saying he was weighing the idea of a mandatory quarantine for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, President Donald Trump tweeted that instead he'd issue advisory urging people in those states to avoid any nonessential travel for two weeks. 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/Mary Altaffer)

Florida, Texas seek to keep New York residents from spreading coronavirus

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sunday, March 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Donald Trump extends coronavirus guidelines through April 30

By Tom Howell Jr. and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio calls on a member of the press at City Hall, Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Jake Tapper grills Bill de Blasio as ‘go about your lives’ coronavirus calls haunt NYC mayor

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A paramedic transports a patient into the Trauma Center at the Elmhurst Hospital Center, Sunday, March 29, 2020, in the Queens borough of 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/Mary Altaffer)

New York state surpasses 1,000 coronavirus deaths

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

Sri Lankan police commandos prepare to spray disinfectants in a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, March 27, 2020. 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/Eranga Jayawardena)

The Latest: Michigan executive order restores water service

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Jan. 20, 2010 file photo, the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort is anchored off the coast of Haiti to support Operation Unified Response. On Wednesday, March, 18, 2020, President Donald Trump announced he will dispatch the Comfort to the New York City Harbor to provide New York City hospitals with relieve in taking on the COVID-19 virus. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Chelsea Kennedy/Released)

Trump: No quarantine, but travel advisory for NY, CT and NJ

By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

Nurses stand on a grassy hill outside the emergency entrance to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx borough of New York, Saturday, March 28, 2020, as they demonstrate with members of the New York Nursing Association in support of obtaining an adequate supply of personal protective equipment for those treating coronavirus patients. A member of the New York nursing community died earlier in the week at another New York hospital. The city leads the nation in the number of coronavirus cases. Nurses say they are having to reuse their protective equipment endangering patients and themselves. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

NY delays presidential primary; Trump nixes quarantine idea

By JENNIFER PELTZ and CAROLYN THOMPSON - Associated Press

A patron picks up a sandwich from a drive-thru window at a shop where the indoor dining area is closed in efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in Evans City, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Restaurants, trying to stay afloat, revamp menus, operations

By DAN SEWELL - Associated Press

Surgeon General Jerome Adams speaks during press briefing with the coronavirus task force, at the White House, Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Surgeon General Jerome Adams: ‘Hot spots’ like Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans will have ‘worse week’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, discusses the arrival of a shipment of 400 ventilators with Dr. Steven Pulitzer, the Chief Medical Officer of NYC Health and Hospitals, at the city's Emergency Management Warehouse., Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Bill de Blasio: Donald Trump not looking at facts of ‘astronomical growth’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

$FILE - In this March 20, 2020, file photo, a subway customer walks a sparsely populated 42nd Street Times Square platform while covering his face due to coronavirus concerns in New York. Los Angeles is half the size of New York City but has a disproportionately small fraction of the coronavirus cases and deaths as the nation's largest city. The same goes for California when compared with New York state as a whole, which is the current epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)$

Coronavirus cases hit 2 largest US cities differently

By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press

Census figures show decline of New York’s rural areas

By MICHAEL HILL - Associated Press

A medical worker directs a patient to enter a COVID-19 testing site at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo sounded his most dire warning yet about the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday, saying the infection rate in New York is accelerating and the state could be as close as two weeks away from a crisis that sees 40,000 people in intensive care. Such a surge would overwhelm hospitals, which now have just 3,000 intensive care unit beds statewide. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

On NYC’s front lines, health workers worry they will be next

By BERNARD CONDON and JIM MUSTIAN and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

A man walks past an electronic billboard showing a doctor wearing a medical mask with the words reading &quot;Avoid crowded places, it will save a life&quot;, displayed in a street in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin has postponed a nationwide vote on proposed constitutional amendments that include a change potentially allowing him to stay in office until 2036. Putin cited the coronavirus in announcing the postponement of the vote that was originally scheduled for April 22. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

The Latest: Singapore penalizing social distancing violators

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A medical worker uses her phone while wearing a surgical mask outside Mt. Sinai West, Thursday, March 26, 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)

Deaths, hospitalizations up in stark sign of virus’ reach

By KAREN MATTHEWS and MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

Town crews work to construct new counter windows in the land uses offices on the ground floor of Wallingford Town Hall, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. (Dave Zajac/Record-Journal via AP)

Connecticut to decrease COVID-19 testing, death toll at 21

By SUSAN HAIGH - Associated Press

Patients wear personal protective equipment while maintaining social distancing as they wait in line for a COVID-19 test at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

U.S. death toll from coronavirus tops 1,000, Johns Hopkins University tally shows

Associated Press