A New York City nursing home on Friday reported the deaths of 98 residents believed to have had the coronavirus — a staggering death toll that shocked public officials.

Hospital admissions for COVID-19 dipped below 1,000 and military jets soared in tribute above New York City. Meanwhile, city schools are adopting a new grading system.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state will restart its economy in a multi-phase manner after the peak of the coronavirus outbreak.

Patients are being offloaded from a Navy hospital ship which is getting ready to set sail from New York City.

The U.S. state of New York has launched a large-scale COVID-19 antibody testing starting on Monday in an effort to find out how much of its population has been infected with the virus.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the fall in coronavirus deaths is a sign that the ongoing social distancing practices are working to curb the spread of the virus.

The official death toll from the coronavirus soared in New York City on Tuesday after health authorities began including people who probably had COVID-19, but died without ever being tested.

The death toll from coronavirus in New York has now topped 10,000 only about a month after the state recorded its first fatality, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday.

The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 100,000 Friday as the epidemic in the U.S. cut a widening swath through not just New York City but the entire three-state metropolitan area of 20 million people connected by a tangle of subways, trains and buses.

New York COVID-19-related deaths jumped yet again by more than 700 in a day, while hospitals battling the outbreak reported encouraging news. On the economic front, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said testing would have to be ramped up dramatically to put New York back in business and the state tried to improve its overwhelmed unemployment insurance website.