(Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday that recent data on the novel coronavirus including hospitalizations and deaths suggest the crisis now hitting the state may be hitting a plateau.
Cuomo also told a news briefing that he was extending an order to keep non-essential businesses and schools for another two weeks until April 29.
(reporting by Nathan Layne in Wilton, Connecticut and Barbara Goldberg in Maplewood, New Jersey, Editing by Franklin Paul)