Coronavirus Cases Grow In NYC, Could Top 1,000 In Days: Mayor

NEW YORK CITY – Every New Yorker should assume they've been exposed to the new coronavirus as positive diagnoses reached 269 in the city Sunday — and are expected to top 1,000 within days.

In a conference call with U.N. diplomats Saturday, city officials said, “Everyone in New York should assume that they have been in contact with COVID 19,” Foreign Policy reported after seeing a recording of the conversation.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared on CNN Sunday morning and revealed the new number of diagnoses, which was up from 183 from Saturday night.

"We're going to clearly have a thousand cases at some point next week, probably not even too far into next week," he said.

He continued, "We've never seen anything like this. Let's be clear, this is a crisis that will be with us, first of all, I believe, at least six months. It's unlike anything we've dealt with in our memory."

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