Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency on Saturday after the variety of confirmed coronavirus instances in New York elevated to 76. 

Eleven of the instances are in New York Metropolis and 57 are in Westchester County. There are additionally alerts of an ongoing unfold, together with a pair of instances in each Saratoga County and Rockland County, in addition to 4 in Nassau County, in response to the governor. 

An emergency declaration will permit the state to purchase provides and rent employees extra shortly and simply to assist the well being departments monitoring sufferers beneath self-quarantine, Cuomo mentioned throughout a Saturday press convention on the state Capitol.

The slew of instances in Westchester County hint again to a lawyer from Westchester, who was the second confirmed case within the state. 

"Westchester is an apparent drawback for us," Cuomo mentioned. "They speak...