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7.44pm BST
New York governor Andrew Cuomo and several other governors of north-eastern states convened a conference call this afternoon, to discuss a regionally coordinated plan to reopen the economy.
Cuomo said the state governments’ decisions about how to reopen the economy would be “guided by experts, data and science” and would not be done “in a political way”.
BREAKING: NJ, NY, CT, PA, DE, and RI have formed a regional advisory council to help guide our re-opening once the #COVID19 emergency has passed.
We cannot act on our own. We must be smart & tactical in how our region comes out of this, or else we’ll be right back to square one. pic.twitter.com/fZeOk3GBca
7.41pm BST
Bernie Sanders’ endorsment of Joe Biden comes three months earlier in the election cycle than Sanders’s eventual 2016 endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
Bernie endorses Biden: 4/13/20
Bernie endorses Hillary: 7/12/16
Hillary endorses Obama: 6/27/08
Edwards endorses Kerry: 3/4/04
