NEW: The governors of Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky to work together to reopen the Midwest economies.
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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