11 Now Confirmed With Coronavirus In NY, Per Cuomo

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — An additional five members of a New Rochelle family tested positive for the new coronavirus Wednesday, making the total number of cases in New York now at 11. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the five were confirmed to have COVID-19, as it's officially known.

The father of the family is a friend of the 50-year-old New Rochelle man, currently in the hospital, who was the second case diagnosed in the state.

The latest positive cases involve the father, his wife, two sons and a daughter. One other daughter tested negative for the disease.

All of the confirmed cases, except for a 34-year-old health care worker in New York City, were directly related to the 50-year-old New Rochelle man.

The 50-year-old had an underlying respiratory illness, and he is the only person being treated in the hospital for the disease. He is in stable condition in intensive care and is said to be improving, according to health officials.

Earlier Wednesday, Cuomo had announced that six people tested positive for the new coronavirus in New York as the total number of cases in the United States topped 100 and the nationwide death toll climbed to nine.

They were the wife, son and daughter of the 50-year-old New Rochelle man. Cuomo also said the man's neighbor who originally drove him to the hospital also tested positive.

The 50-year-old man's son is 20 and attends Yeshiva University in Manhattan. The school said it would close Wednesday. The man's daughter is 14 and attends SAR High School.

The man, a 50-year-old attorney, had an underlying respiratory illness that made the situation more serious, Cuomo said.

"He is the type of person we worry about," the governor said.

The family remains in isolation, Cuomo said. They had been in quarantine and under observation until they were tested.

Cuomo said that because the neighbor had been in close contact with the man while in a car, "that then triggers the detective work to figure as many connections as possible."

Westchester County Executive George Latimer said Tuesday that the county will track where the New Rochelle man and his family went within Westchester to get an idea of whether the virus has spread and, if so, to whom.

At the direction of state health officials, Westchester County Health Commissioner Dr. Sherlita Amler shut down Young Israel of New Rochelle, the synagogue where the man and his family worshipped.

All congregants of the temple who attended services Feb. 22 and a funeral and a bat mitzvah Feb. 23 must self-quarantine until March 8 at the earliest, health officials said.

Young Israel officials were ordered to halt all services now and for the foreseeable future due to potential exposure of the new coronavirus.

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