NEW YORK - Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the number of coronavirus cases in New York jumped to more than 20,000 as of Monday morning; 12,305 of those known cases was in New York City.
More than 5,700 new cases across the state were diagnosed on Sunday. "We cannot handle the high point," Cuomo said about the future cases that are expected in the state, adding that he signed an executive order requiring hospitals to expand their existing capacity by at least 50% and setting at goal for each hospital to double their capacity. > DE BLASIO PLEADS WITH TRUMP FOR SUPPLIES "This is going to get much worse before it gets better.
We are in the relative calm before the storm," Cuomo said Monday afternoon when toured a site inside the Jacob Javits Convention