Coronavirus Case Count In NYC Nears 1,000, 10 Dead: Mayor

NEW YORK CITY — New York City saw 100 more cases of the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours with 10 people now dead, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.

The figure now stands at 923, with it undoubtedly rising past 1,000 over the next day, the mayor said on NBC's Today Show.

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The city's leader will be talking with Governor Andrew Cuomo Wednesday to discuss ordering that the city shelters-in-place — a move de Blasio said he thinks is needed but one Cuomo, who has the authority to order it, is reluctant to support.

"We are going to top 1,000 today, undoubtedly, 10,000 not so long from now," de Blasio said.

"This needs urgent interention and an honest conversation about shelter-in-place."

Shelter-in-place, which has already been put in place in San Francisco, bans all but essential activity. In San Francisco, people can leave their homes only to buy food, get medication or exercise.

Cuomo told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night that his reluctance to shelter-in-place was rooted in the fact that it would have to be done statewide.

"From my point of view, I need a statewide plan that works and a plan that doesn't shift people from one place to another place," he said.

"The population in New York is very mobile. If New York City puts a policy in place that people don't like, they'll just move to Nassau, they'll go to Westchester, they'll stay with their brother, they'll stay with their sister.

"I've gone through this with other emergencies. So whatever we do, we have to do it statewide. But we've taken it a step further in New York. I'm doing policies jointly with New Jersey and Connecticut and now we're bringing in Pennsylvania, because none of these policies work unless you have a big enough geographic area."

The mayor also said the federal government needs to send the military in to help cope with the crisis.

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