JUST IN: New York health commissioner says she would not be surprised if 'close to a million New Yorkers' had been exposed to COVID-19.
10:32 a.m.: Around 1 million New Yorkers could have been exposed to COVID: Health commissioner
De Blasio also offered a stark statistic: he expects that an additional one million residents could become food insecure under the pandemic, putting the total number of food insecure New Yorkers at around two million. A woman walks through an almost-deserted Times Square in the early morning hours, on April 23, 2020, in New York City. Job losses from the coronavirus pandemic deepened last week with data showing another 4.4 million US workers filed new claims for jobless benefits, bringing the total to 26.4 million since mid-March.De Blasio offered hope to New Yorkers, saying he believes the city will persevere, but also warned that"we're still very much in this fight.
Starting Thursday, all of the city's frontline workers can get tested for COVID-19 whether they have symptoms or not. Workers wearing personal protective equipment gather the tests administered as Mend Urgent Care hosts a drive-thru testing for COVID-19 at the Westfield Fashion Square in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on April 14, 2020. Los Angeles County's 'safer at home' orders remain in effect through May 15 to stop the spread of novel coronavirus during the global pandemic.
"We want all retailers to be able to open on May 11 in the same way out of fairness," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told France Info radio on Thursday."I would only set aside restaurants, bars and cafes that will need special treatment because they are a place of mixing."
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