Millions of workers worldwide are marking international labor day trapped between hunger and fear because of the virus pandemic, either with no job at all or a job without enough health protections. Meanwhile, Beijing’s Forbidden City cracked open its doors and shopping malls from Texas to Indiana are set to do the same Friday. World leaders are trying to find a way to salvage virus-battered economies without unleashing new waves of infections. But some workers and labor unions are worried that it’s not safe yet. Traditional May Day marches are curtailed or illegal by restrictions on public gatherings, so labor activists are honking car horns, singing from balconies or staging wildcat protests.

AP’s coronavirus podcast, “Ground Game: Inside the Outbreak,” today looks at the latest from the White House, including the messages Trump and Pence are trying to send as they begin to venture out amid easing lockdown measures. Listen to the podcast at https://appodcasts.com/category/ground-game/. Embed code is available on AP Coverage Plan.

The AP plans the following coverage. For up-to-the minute information, visit AP Newsroom’s coverage hub at https://newsroom.ap.org/page/Coronavirus Find AP Virus Alerts here

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VIRUS OUTBREAK: Millions of workers worldwide marked international labor day on Friday trapped between hunger and fear — struggling without jobs or worried they don’t have enough protections against the coronavirus as more countries and states reopen for business. SENT/developing. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-THE LATEST and VIRUS OUTBREAK-WHAT'S HAPPENING.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-TREATMENT: U.S. regulators will allow emergency use of an experimental drug that appears to help some coronavirus patients recover faster. It is the first drug shown to help fight COVID-19. SENT; developing.

FINANCIAL MARKETS: Stocks ended lower on Wall Street Friday, giving up their gains for the week, after Amazon and other big companies laid out how the coronavirus pandemic is hitting their bottom lines. SENT; developing. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-BUSINESS FALLOUT.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-FRONT-LINE-WORKERS: As America tentatively emerges from weeks of lockdowns, the pandemic has taken its toll on workers who have been on the front lines all along. SENT: 1500 words, photos.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-MAY-DAY-GARMENT-INDUSTRY: May Day usually brings both protest rallies and celebrations rallies marking international Labor Day. This year, many in Asia are shut up at home, riding out the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 890 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-BRINGING WORKERS BACK: As small business owners bring workers back from layoffs, they’re redoing their floor plans and operations to minimize contact and staggering work hours and shifts to cut the number of people on the premises at any given time. SENT: 770 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-RENT DUE AGAIN: The rent is due again for more than 30 million people around the U.S. who have filed for unemployment benefits after losing work in the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 750 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-HIGHER EDUCATION: The dramatic and widespread fallout from the COVID-19 virus has thrown the U.S. higher education system into a state of turmoil with fears that it could transform into an existential moment for the time-honored American tradition of high school graduates heading off to college. SENT: 1200 words, photos. An 810-word abridged has moved.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-COMICS-CONUNDRUM: The comic book shop has long been a wall-to-wall repository for tales of world-threatening cataclysms and doomsday dystopias but it has never before been drawn into a fight for survival like the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 1050 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-KILLING HOGS: As the coronavirus pandemic continues to force the closure of meatpacking plants across the country, hog farmers have had to respond quickly to a rapidly growing backlog of animals in their barns by killing and disposing of pigs. SENT: 820 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-MEAT PLANTS: A union representing employees at a South Dakota pork processing plant says it will partially reopen Monday after shuttering more than two weeks ago because of a coronavirus outbreak that infected hundreds of employees. SENT; developing.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-HIGHER EDUCATION: The dramatic and widespread fallout from the COVID-19 virus has thrown the U.S. higher education system into a state of turmoil with fears that it could transform into an existential moment for the time-honored American tradition of high school graduates heading off to college. SENT: 1200 words, photos. An 810-word abridged has moved.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-UNEQUAL BEACHES: As they reopen beaches during the coronavirus outbreak, some shore towns from Maine to Florida are only letting local residents onto the sand. SENT: 770 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-LIVES LOST-AN ANGELIC VOICE: Hannelore Cruz traveled to Portugal as a refugee from hunger, cold and postwar deprivation in Austria. SENT: 830 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-ONE GOOD THING-BANGKOK HAIRDRESSER: A hairstylist is boosting the morale of frontline medical workers by dispensing free haircuts in Bangkok. SENT: 540 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-AFRICA: A festive atmosphere has enlivened South Africa’s streets as the country marks the Workers’ Day public holiday and also has begun easing its strict lockdown conditions. SENT; developing.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-BRAZIL: Brazil is emerging as Latin America’s coronavirus epicenter with more than 5,900 deaths. The country’s funeral home association warns that coffins are running out in the hard-hit Amazon city of Manaus. SENT: 980 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-INTELLIGENCE: President Donald Trump has speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible “mistake,” and his intelligence agencies said they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may have resulted from an accident at a Chinese lab. SENT: 1065 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-USS KIDD: Lessons learned from a coronavirus outbreak aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt played a central role in limiting damage when the virus hit a second Navy ship at sea. SENT: 830 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-ITALY-WHO’S FAMILY: Under Italy’s more relaxed lockdown rules starting next week, people can visit family within the same region. But confusion abounds over how close the family connection needs to be. SENT: 560 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-WAGE GARNISHMENT: A new lawsuit accuses the U.S. Education Department of garnishing wages from workers who are behind on student loan payments even after Congress ordered the agency to suspend the practice during the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 810 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-NEW YORK: Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday that New York schools and colleges will remain closed through the rest of the academic year amid the coronavirus pandemic. SENT; developing.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-IMMIGRATION DETENTION: A federal judge has ordered authorities to release hundreds of immigrants from three Florida detention centers to prevent a wider spread of the coronavirus. SENT: 610 words, photos.

WHITE HOUSE-DOCTOR-INVESTIGATION: A conspiracy theorist who was a target in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation says the Justice Department is now scrutinizing his communications with a doctor who has touted an anti-malaria drug as a treatment for the new coronavirus. SENT: 770 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-CONGRESS: The Senate is set to convene Monday, but the Capitol Physician says there’s no way to quickly test the 100 senators and staff for the coronavirus. SENT; developing.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-CALIFORNIA: A rural California county is defying Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus shutdown order and has become the state’s first county to let nonessential businesses reopen. SENT; developing.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-CALIFORNIA HEALTH CORPS: State officials say two-thirds of the 93,000 people who volunteered for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California Health Corps lacked valid medical licenses, the most basic requirement. SENT: 950 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-PEDIATRIC PATIENT: The parents of a 12-year-old girl from the New Orleans area are overjoyed that their daughter has recovered from a near-death coronavirus infection. SENT: 650 words, photos.

UNEMPLOYED-NEW YORK-FITNESS: Nearly two months into statewide pandemic restrictions, some New York City trainers and aerobic instructors say they worry the industry won’t be the same when gyms can reopen. SENT: 765 words, photos.,

UNEMPLOYED-NEW YORK-CLEANERS: Many cleaners of businesses in the New York area have lost their jobs because buildings have shut or because they refuse to work after getting coronavirus symptoms while on the job. SENT: 640 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-MAKE-A-WISH: Make-A-Wish is trying to make dreams come true during the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 830 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-SPORTS TESTING: The NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball would need thousands of virus tests every week if those leagues can resume playing games. That remains the biggest challenge to address before most sports can resume. SENT: 1000 words, photos.

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ASTRONAUTS-HOME-LAUNCH: NASA and SpaceX are urging spectators to stay home for the first home launch of astronauts in nearly a decade because of the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 470 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-DEA THEFTS: A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a telecommunications specialist are accused of stealing personal protective equipment, toilet paper and other supplies from an agency warehouse in Florida amid shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 475 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-AMAZON NOISE: For residents of a northern Virginia neighborhood where Amazon is building a new headquarters, the loudest construction work is occurring at the worst possible time. SENT: 550 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-FALLEN PARAMEDIC: New York City’s mayor is praising the sacrifice of a Colorado paramedic, promising that his heroism before he died of the coronavirus will be forever honored in the city he came to rescue. SENT: 430 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-COMMUNITY FUNERAL: A neighborhood in Brooklyn has come together to help bury a stranger. SENT: 475 words.

RAMADAN-JERUSALEM: Muslims in Jerusalem are praying outside in small groups during the holy month of Ramadan as measures aimed at curbing the coronavirus pandemic remain in place. SENT: 330 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-HONG KONG-MALL PROTESTS: Hong Kong police have used pepper spray to disperse over a hundred protesters in a shopping mall who were singing and chanting pro-democracy slogans. SENT 240 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-MAJESTIC WORLD-PHOTO GALLERY: As humans have disappeared into that coronavirus cocoon, though, other things have asserted themselves. Animals, for one. And emptiness. SENT: 510 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-MAY DAY-PHOTO GALLERY: Trapped between fear of an invisible enemy and looming economic ruin and hunger, millions of workers worldwide have marked international labor day. SENT: 450 words.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-NEW YORK-PHOTO GALLERY: New York’s horrible April — among the worst in its history — is over. Only time will tell if the pandemic that made it so awful will fade in May. SENT: 300 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.

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

-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.

-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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