NEW: New York's shutdown, in coordination with other Northeast states, will be extended to May 15. 'I don't want to project beyond that period,' Gov. Andrew Cuomo says.
Medical worker on the night shift outside of a special coronavirus intake area at Maimonides Medical Center, on April 15, 2020, in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn, New York.
Workers organize food to be donated by City Harvest Mobile Market Food Distribution Center, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 15, 2020.Meanwhile, the mayor said 11,000 free hotel rooms are being provided for New Yorkers who need to quarantine. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday expanded a state of emergency from seven prefectures to all 47 prefectures in the nation in an attempt to prevent COVID-19 from spreading further.
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