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UPDATE: Non-essential jobsites must close, effective now, except key infrastructure, medical facilities, and affordable housing, with time to insure projects are 'safely stabilized,' state said March 27; NY reports more than 60,000 cases and 965 deaths as of Mar. 30

The facility was shuttered in 2018 but will be reopened to provide beds for patients with coronavirus and other conditions.

Judge orders agency to do new environmental review in case brought by tribe, but did not order a halt to current operation.

Work had continued at Boston's Oro Seaport project despite the Boston ban on all construction because it was located on state-controlled land.

All commercial and residential construction will halt because of COVID-19 spread, with exceptions for low-income housing and work related to critical infrastructure.

Directive follows industry groups' plea to blunt national financial impact; government may pump in more than $810 billion to shore up German economy.

On a local TV show, de Blasio was asked whether it was necessary to keep all construction sites open.