NHK, TBS, and Fuji TV gave top coverage to reports on a meeting of about 30 governors across Japan held online this morning in response to the announcement yesterday by the GOJ on the expansion of the state of emergency to cover all prefectures in an effort to minimize the movement of people during the upcoming Golden Week holidays. NTV gave top play to a report that Kyoto Prefecture will request the closure of local entertainment facilities from 12 a.m. on Saturday through May 6. TV Asahi led with a report that China’s GDP growth turned negative in the first quarter of this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying that this was the first time for China’s quarterly growth to be negative since the country began releasing such data.