LATEST: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he and the city council came to an agreement to shut down 40 miles of streets to vehicular traffic and give people more free space as the weather gets warmer.
10:41 a.m.: NYC to open up 40 miles of streets to pedestrians, will hire 1,000 disease detectives
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at a food pantry organized by The Campaign Against Hunger in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 14, 2020. "If you had experience in health care field, if you want to lend your talents to the fight, we need you immediately," de Blasio said.The Russian military has reported more than 2,000 cases of COVID-19 among its servicemen, civilian employees and cadets.
More than 87,000 people in Russia have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and at least 794 of them have died, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University.The U.S. Navy is planning for its hospital ship to depart New York City on Thursday and return to the naval base in Norfolk, Virginia. Medical personnel who worked in the ship's coronavirus ward will begin their 14-day isolation on board. It's unclear where they will continue isolating once the ship arrives back in Norfolk.Volkswagen, the world's largest automaker by sales, resumed production at its biggest factory on Monday.
A worker wears a protective mask at the Volkswagen assembly line as the company resumes production at Europe's largest car factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, on April 27, 2020. Volkswagen was forced to halt production at its Wolfsburg plant in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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