NY gov deploys National Guard, creates containment zone for town hard hit by coronavirus
By Rebecca Klar - 03/10/20 01:47 PM EDT
State officials are deploying the National Guard and creating a containment zone around a city in Westchester County as the coronavirus outbreak spreads, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced Tuesday.
“This is the single greatest public health challenge we have right now,†Cuomo said at a press conference on Tuesday, about the outbreak in New Rochelle.
New Rochelle, a small city in Westchester County just north of New York City, is the hub of the outbreak in New York.
Westchester County has 108 of the state’s 173 confirmed COVID-19 cases. New York City has 36 confirmed cases of the virus, Cuomo announced at the conference.
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