The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the United States topped one million on Wednesday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
The pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 57,000 people in the US, which leads the world in the number of confirmed infections with 1,002,498, according to the Baltimore-based school's latest count.
As Colorado, Minnesota, Mississippi and Tennessee were among the latest states to loosen restrictions, Mr Cuomo said he was preparing to lengthen confinement measures for badly-hit areas. Mr Cuomo plans to allow manufacturing and construction to restart in some of the state's least-affected areas after May 15 as part of a phased reopening."We have to be smart because if you are not smart, you will see that infection rate go right back to where it was. will be right back to where we were 58 days ago and nobody wants that," he said.
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