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New York has 15,168 confirmed cases.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo disclosed new statistics on Sunday that indicated that New York State now has roughly 5 percent of coronavirus cases worldwide.
The jump in the number of cases in New York stems from both the rapid growth of the outbreak and significantly increased testing in the state. Health officials emphasized that testing was revealing how quickly the coronavirus has spread.
There are now 15,168 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the state, up 4,812 since Saturday, and 114 deaths, Mr. Cuomo said. About 13 percent, or 1,974 people in New York who tested positive for the virus, are hospitalized, Mr. Cuomo said.
He said that 18- to 49-year-olds make up more than half of all cases in the state, and that more than 9,000 of the total cases were in New York City.
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Mr. Cuomo also indicated that he would give New York City 24 hours to come up with a plan to reduce density in public spaces like parks, which he would need to approve.
“I don’t know what I’m saying that people don’t get,” Mr. Cuomo said, calling some New Yorkers’ behavior “insensitive” and “arrogant.” He suggested that city officials could close some streets to traffic to give residents more outdoor space.
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The governor wants state hospitals to double their capacity. He said the Federal Emergency Management Agency would build four hospitals with 1,000 total beds at the sprawling Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Midtown Manhattan.
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Mr. Cuomo echoed a call from Mayor Bill de Blasio for the federal government to require the private sector to produce medical equipment. “If I had the power, I would do it in New York,” he said.
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Mr. Cuomo reiterated his support for continued testing for the virus. “We’re still trying to stop the apex,” he said. “I’m not willing to give up the testing.” He also urged the federal government to move quickly to test people for antibodies indicating that they have recovered from the virus, in part to help combat health care worker shortages.
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New York has secured from the federal government trial drugs that it will begin testing on Tuesday, Mr. Cuomo said. They include hydroxychloroquine, zithromax and chloroquine.
“The president is optimistic about these drugs,” Mr. Cuomo said. “I’ve spoken with a number of health officials, and there is a good basis to believe that they could work.”
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All elective, noncritical surgeries are canceled as of Wednesday to increase hospital bed capacity in the state by 25 to 30 percent, Mr. Cuomo said.
Earlier on Sunday, City Councilman Mark Levine, the chairman of the Council’s health committee, said on Twitter that he thought testing was causing more harm because, in part, because it requires staffing and supplies that could otherwise be used while treating seriously ill patients.
New Jersey has nearly 2,000 confirmed cases.
New Jersey officials announced 590 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, bringing the statewide total to 1,914, including 20 deaths. For the first time, all 21 counties in New Jersey have reported cases of the virus.
Two additional drive-through testing facilities will open on Monday morning — one at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel and the second at Kean University in Union.
Gov. Philip D. Murphy issued an executive order on Saturday closing nonessential businesses and asking all residents to stay home. “There’s too many people still not paying attention to this,” Mr. Murphy said. “We’ve about had it.”
The state’s health commissioner, Judith Persichilli, said there was a shortage of blood, and she urged donors to make an appointment. “It’s one concrete way we can all roll up our sleeves and help,” she said.
Students must move after a virus-related death.
Hundreds of students and young professionals at a residential building in Upper Manhattan have been ordered to move after a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus and a resident died from the illness.
The International House New York, which offers dormitory-style living with shared bathrooms and lounges, told all residents in its South Building that they must vacate by Friday, sending students, many of them new to the United States and with little means, scrambling to find new housing.
There are between 300 to 500 residents in the South Building, many of whom attend Columbia University. The order came after a staff member tested positive last week for the coronavirus.
Early Sunday, management at the International House, also known as the I-House, announced that a resident with the virus had died, according to an email obtained by The New York Times.
“It is with tremendous sadness that I write to inform you that an I-House resident has passed away from complications from the Covid-19 virus,” the management wrote to residents. “We are sharing this heartbreaking news, which we just learned a few hours ago, because of the need to get this information to our community immediately during the extremely difficult time.”
Management at the International House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Students on Sunday said they were frantically packing their belongings and relying on friends to help find new housing. They said officials at the International House told them that the state’s newly announced moratorium on evictions did not apply because the residents signed a contract stating the International House is not a traditional landlord.
Students also said the International House had disclosed no information about the people who tested positive or whether they had contact with other people.
“I’m so uncertain because there are more people here who have this virus,” said a 26-year-old graduate student at Columbia University who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. “People here are in a difficult economic situation.”
The student was moving on Sunday into an apartment in Manhattan with three friends.
‘It’s getting worse,’ Mayor de Blasio says.
New York City’s health care system is straining under the deluge of coronavirus cases, and it is “getting worse” Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Sunday morning.
“April is going to be worse than March,” the mayor said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And I fear May will be worse than April.”
As of Sunday morning, 9,654 people in New York City had tested positive for the coronavirus, and 63 had died from complications related to it, city officials said. In New York State, 61,401 people have been tested for the virus, including 26,389 in New York City.
Mr. de Blasio was blunt when speaking about President Trump’s response to the crisis, saying, “If the president does not act, people will die who could have lived otherwise.”
When asked what he wanted the military to do immediately, the mayor responded: “All military personnel who are medically trained should be sent to places where this crisis is deep, like New York, right now.”
He continued: “If there are ventilators being produced anywhere in the country, we need to get them to New York. Not weeks from now or months from now, in the next 10 days.”
A federal inmate in Brooklyn tests positive for the virus.
An inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn tested positive on Saturday for the coronavirus, according to a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons. It is the first known case involving an inmate in the federal prison system.
The inmate arrived at the jail on Monday, the agency said. Three days later, he complained of chest pains and was taken to an outside hospital and tested for the virus. He returned to the Brooklyn facility the next day and was placed in isolation.
On Saturday, the test came back positive.
Prison workers were told to clean the area that held the inmate while he was at the hospital, but they refused because they lacked protective gear, according to a Bureau of Prisons employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
It was not clear if outside cleaners were brought in to do the job.
The prison agency did not say whether staff members or other inmates would be quarantined, but the employee said that the sick inmate had been held with other inmates during the week and that the agency has since quarantined those inmates.
Workers were told they would be notified if they must isolate themselves, the employee said.
The New York Times spoke with more than a dozen workers in the Bureau of Prisons last week who said the Metropolitan Detention Center and other prisons were ill-prepared for a coronavirus outbreak. The Brooklyn jail, like many others, does not have enough hand sanitizer or soap, according to two Bureau of Prisons employees.
Eerie streetscapes are stripped of commerce
Everywhere, gates lowered. Bar stools stacked upside down. The boutiques of SoHo, the specialty shops of Greenwich Village — for chess, for board games, for records — all locked away and dark. Little Italy’s signature sidewalk tables for alfresco dining had been hauled inside, leaving Mulberry Street just like any other street.
New York City’s new face under coronavirus showed itself under bright, blue skies on Saturday. It was a shuttered streetscape stripped of commerce and the jangled rhythms of footfalls, honking horns and even people’s voices, a scene that might follow a blizzard, overlaid on a cool spring day.
Some New Yorkers ventured out from isolation, alone or in twos or threes, for a peek around, filling the stillness with their own narrations on a city’s mood.
“It makes people closer in a way,” said one woman, Susan Duncan, in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as she watched the unspoken choreography of people swerving to make room for one another.
“There is kind of a warm feeling about that,” Ms. Duncan said.
But in nearby Williamsburg, Jeannie McAuley, 44, found the quiet left her in the company of her own cloud-covered thoughts. “With fewer people around, it builds the anxiety,” she said.
A trickle of visitors approached the 9/11 Memorial and its reflecting pools, perhaps seeking solace during a crisis without precedent by remembering the recovery from another. Greenwich Village, normally thrumming with tourists and the young brunch-set on a given weekend, now looked as if from a bygone era.
Reporting was contributed by Annie Correal, Luis Ferré-Sadurní, Joseph Goldstein, J. David Goodman, Matthew Haag, Danielle Ivory, Jesse McKinley, Azi Paybarah, Brian Rosenthal, Michael Rothfeld, Edgar Sandoval, Tracey Tully, Neil Vigdor and Michael Wilson.
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