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11.51pm GMT

I'm now passing over the blog to my colleague Alison Rourke.

11.49pm GMT

The New York attorney general's offices had called on ethics investigators to look into reports that Governor Andrew Cuomo and others connected to the governor had received special access to Covid-19 tests when they were scarce last year.

AP reports:

The office of Attorney General Letitia James, Cuomo's fellow Democrat, issued a statement urging New York's Joint Commission on Public Ethics to investigate after the reports were published in the Times Union of Albany, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

The recent reports alleging there was preferential treatment given for COVID-19 testing are troubling," the statement read. While we do not have jurisdiction to investigate this matter, it's imperative that JCOPE look into it immediately."

Related: Cuomo got Covid tests for friends and family when access was scarce