Even as New York's daily coronavirus death toll hit its lowest point in over two weeks, Governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday said the state is not ready to ease up on shutdowns of schools, businesses and gatherings.

President Donald Trump insists there are "numerous provisions" in the Constitution to support his view that he has "total authority" to order states to open their economies as the coronavirus pandemic roils.

New York secured a planeload of ventilators from China on Saturday, and Oregon was sending a shipment of its own to battle the coronavirus pandemic at its U.S. core, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. But the governor's startling plan to force hospitals elsewhere in the state to give spare ventilators to the fight in New York City apparently hadn't yet materialized, a day after he ordered them to surrender 20% of any unused supply to the National Guard for temporary redistribution. The state got 1,000 ventilators after the Chinese government facilitated a donation from billionaires Jack Ma and Joseph Tsai, the co-founders of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, Cuomo said. He added that the state of Oregon had volunteered to send 140 more breathing machines.