The reopening of those businesses, with certain precautions left in place, would constitute a first phase of reopening, he said.

In a second phase, businesses would reopen based on an assessment of how essential they were to the populace and how much risk was involved in reopening them.

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Deaths dropped sharply in New York and New Jersey.

The governors of New York and New Jersey announced sharp declines in their states’ reported daily death tolls on Sunday.

Governor Cuomo said that 367 more people in New York had been killed by the virus. The last time fewer than 375 deaths were reported in a single day in the state was on March 31, when the single-day toll was 332.