The steep rise in coronavirus deaths appears to be leveling off in New York, echoing a trend underway in Italy and Spain, while the crisis is going in in the opposite direction in Britain, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care after his condition deteriorated. Johnson’s office says the 55-year-old prime minister is conscious and does not need to be put on a ventilator for now. He is the world’s first known head of government to fall ill with the virus.

AP’s coronavirus podcast, “Ground Game: Inside the Outbreak,” today looks at how the COVID-19 outbreak has affected Iran and other parts of the Middle East. Listen to the podcast at https://appodcasts.com/category/ground-game/ Embed code is available on AP Coverage Plan.

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VIRUS OUTBREAK: The steep rise in coronavirus deaths appeared to be leveling off Monday in hard-hit New York, echoing a trend underway in Italy and Spain, while the crisis escalated in Britain, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care after his condition deteriorated. SENT; developing. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-THE LATEST and VIRUS OUTBREAK-WHAT'S HAPPENING.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-BRITAIN: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to the intensive care unit of a London hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened. SENT; developing.

FINANCIAL MARKETS: Wall Street surged 7% Monday after some of world’s areas hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak offered sparks of hope that the pandemic may soon slow its spread. SENT/developing. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-BUSINESS FALLOUT

VIRUS OUTBREAK-THE LAST RESPONDER: The Associated Press spent a day on the road with a Brooklyn funeral director overwhelmed by demand due to the coronavirus outbreak. Tom Cheeseman is picking up as many as 10 bodies per day. SENT: 990 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-EUROPE’S ECONOMY: The virus outbreak is exposing cracks in the foundation of Europe’s 20-year-old shared currency and festering animosities among its members, even as governments struggle to come up with a unified response where success or failure could mark the continent’s politics for years to come. SENT: 1020 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-ANTIVIRAL DRUG: Coronavirus patients around the world are rushing to join studies of an experimental drug that showed promise against some similar viruses in the past. SENT: 810 words, photos. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-VACCINE STUDY

VIRUS OUTBREAK-CHILDREN: The first nationwide report on COVID-19 in U.S. children suggests that while the virus usually is mild and rarely fatal in kids, some do require hospital treatment. SENT: 380 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-PERU-THE VULNERABLE: César Alegre emerges from the large, deteriorated house near Peru’s presidential palace that is shared by 45 families to search for food. Sometimes he begs in markets; sometimes he sells candies. It is a task that was hard at the best of times, but with a month-long quarantine that has forced 32 million Peruvians to stay home, it has become much harder. SENT: 710 words, photos.

AP POLL-VIRUS OUTBREAK: A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that Americans in overwhelming numbers are actively avoiding others as much as possible and taking additional steps to protect themselves from the coronavirus. SENT: 980 words, photos. With AP POLL-VIRUS OUTBREAK-GLANCE.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-KEPT APART: Just when many feel they need a hug the most, the pandemic is making it unthinkable. People around the world are feeling the impacts of “social distancing.” SENT: 850 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-SOUNDS IN SILENCE: There’s no doubt the coronavirus crisis has drastically transformed what we’re hearing around the globe as the routine cacophony of daily life has calmed. SENT: 825 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-ONE GOOD THING-SENIOR DANCING: Lola Jaramillo’s elderly students are huddled in their homes, following orders to protect themselves from the new coronavirus, which hits older people especially hard. And in their homes, they can dance along with Jaramillo. SENT: 440 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-EVENTS ON HOLD: The events industry, which exists to bring people together, has been hit particularly hard by fallout from the coronavirus. SENT: 820 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-LIVES LOST-DYING ALONE: Nothing in the way Enrico Giacomoni lived during his 80-plus years in Rome corresponds with the way he died, which was alone. SENT: 590 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-HOSPITALS: A federal report finds 3 out of 4 U.S. hospitals surveyed are already treating patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19. SENT: 830 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-TRUMP DRUG: President Donald Trump and his administration are keeping up their out-sized promotion of an anti-malaria drug not yet officially approved for fighting the new coronavirus. SENT; developing. WITH VIRUS OUTBREAK-MALARIA DRUG-GLANCE

ELECTION 2020-WISCONSIN: Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has issued an executive order to delay the state’s scheduled Tuesday presidential primary election for two months because of the coronavirus pandemic. SENT; developing.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-AIRCRAFT CARRIER: Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly says the captain of the COVID-stricken aircraft carrier who was fired last week had betrayed his service and may have been “too naive or too stupid” to be commanding officer of the ship. SENT: 880 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-3M: President Donald Trump says his administration will try to stop “profiteers” from exporting medical protective gear, shortly after picking a fight with manufacturing giant 3M, a major producer and exporter of face masks used to protect health care workers from the coronavirus.SENT: 880 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-PRISONS: A new class-action lawsuit demands the release of hundreds of high-risk inmates at a federal prison in Louisiana where the coronavirus has claimed the lives of five prisoners and infected nearly two dozen others. SENT: 830 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-VENTILATORS: California’s governor says the state will loan 500 ventilators to the national stockpile for use by New York and other states experiencing a crush of hospitalizations due to the coronavirus. SENT: 630 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-AMERICA AND THE WORLD: A thick thread of the American experience has always been to hold the rest of the world at arm’s length. Now, the notion of a virus that came from a distant “elsewhere,” accurate or not, stands to carve deeper grooves in that landscape. SENT: 1000 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-WASHINGTON: The U.S. surgeon general is raising the specter of the gravest attacks against the nation in memory, 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, to steel anxious Americans for impending sorrow in the age of the coronavirus. SENT: 920 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-WISCONSIN: Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has issued an executive order to delay the state’s scheduled Tuesday presidential primary election for two months because of the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: developing.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-EUROPE: Spain and Italy, the two European countries hardest hit by the coronavirus, are seeing an easing on their hospital emergency rooms three weeks after implementing lockdowns that paralyzed their economies and forced nearly everyone inside. SENT: 830 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-BRAZIL-CHINA: China’s embassy in Brazil responded with outrage Monday to a social media post by Brazil’s Education Minister Abraham Weintraub that appeared to mock Chinese accents while insinuating the Asian giant stood to benefit from the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 600 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-AFRICA: Kenya increased its restrictions to combat the coronavirus, announcing travel bans into and out of the capital city, Nairobi, the port of Mombasa and two counties. SENT 810 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-TIGER: A tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City has tested positive for the new coronavirus. It’s believed to be the first infection in an animal in the U.S. and the first known in a tiger anywhere. SENT: 760 words, photos.

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VIRUS OUTBREAK-ILLINOIS: Chicago’s mayor says the city is launching a health campaign focused on black and brown communities. Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s comments Monday follow a WBEZ report highlighting the disproportionate number of black residents among those who have died of COVID-19 complications in the city. SENT: 450 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-VENEZUELA MIGRANTS: As Colombia continues with a nationwide lockdown, some Venezuelan migrants are deciding they are better off back in their homeland. SENT: 360 words.

FEDERAL RESERVE-SMALL BUSINESS: The Federal Reserve will provide support to the government’s new small business lending program in its latest attempt to smooth the flow of credit in the virus-stricken U.S. economy. SENT: 540 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-LADY GAGA: Lady Gaga and advocacy organization Global Citizen have raised $35 million to fight the coronavirus and will launch a TV special featuring Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Billie Eilish to combat the growing virus. SENT: 325 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS: The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jewish victims of the Nazis says it is making millions of extra dollars available for elderly Holocaust survivors who are particularly vulnerable to the new coronavirus. SENT: 400 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-EXIT STRATEGY: Austria and the Czech Republic are planning to relax some restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus starting after Easter. SENT: 510 words, photos.

TV-VIRUS OUTBREAK-ALL RISE: CBS’ courtroom drama series “All Rise” is resuming production with an episode reflecting the coronavirus crisis in the lives of its characters. SENT: 210 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-PREMIER LEAGUE: Liverpool has reversed a decision to apply its furloughed non-playing staff for the British government’s job SENT: 440 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-ITALIAN FISHERMEN-PHOTO GALLERY: Italy’s fishermen still go out to sea at night, but not as frequently in recent weeks since demand is down amid the country’s devastating coronavirus outbreak. SENT: 380 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-A WEEK-PHOTO GALLERY: Cemetery workers wore protective clothing as they conducted a burial in Brazil, a field of freshly dug graves awaiting more corpses. In Spain, a stockpile of caskets stood ready for burials or cremations. SENT: 210 words.

INTERACTIVES/GRAPHICS:

-US cases county-by-county. Embed code can be found in Coverage Plan. A static graphic also will be available in AP Newsroom.

-Virus Europe Spread (map): An auto updating European map tracking the total confirmed cases, recoveries and deaths from coronavirus.

Additional graphics and interactives include:

- Flattening the Coronavirus Curve (Chart): Chart compares the cumulative cases over time in some of the hardest hit countries by coronavirus.

-Virus Global Spread (table): Table of countries which have confirmed cases of the virus. Table also includes when the virus was initially reported and the number of deaths by country.

-Virus Global Spread (Map): Map of countries which have confirmed cases of the virus. Map also includes when the virus was initially reported and the number of deaths by country.

-Virus Cases Compared Inside and Outside of China (Chart): Chart shows the number of confirmed cases in China over time and compares them to cases confirmed outside of China.

-Virus US State Map: State by state count of confirmed cases in the U.S.

-Virus US State Table: Table tracks the number of cases, recoveries and deaths for the US including its territories.

-Interactive breakdown of unemployment filings by state with time scale for each (going back as far as 2000)

-Status of Cases Worldwide: Auto-updating once a day, this chart tracks the levels of active cases and deaths from COVID-19 around the world over time.

-Hospitality Workforce in the US: Coronavirus precautions have struck many U.S. business industries hard, especially the hospitality and service industry, where more than 16 million Americans work for support their livelihoods. This U.S. map highlights the number of hospitality workers and their average annual income by county along with the number of hospitality businesses. It is helpful in illustrating the potential impact of job loss to so many across the nation.

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