NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo said more than 100,000 people in the state have tested positive for the coronavirus and that deaths surged by nearly 600 from Thursday to Friday, bringing the state total to 2,935.
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Cuomo said there are 102,863 cases in New York state, including 10,482 new cases. The most are in New York City—57,159.
A total of 2,935 people have died, up from 2,373 on Thursday.
Cuomo said that was the most people who had died from the virus in the state in one day.
More than 14,000 people are hospitalized statewide and 3,731 are in the ICU, Cuomo said. Another 8,886 patients have been discharged.
Cuomo said hospitalizations had hit a new high and that he expects a "wave" of cases to move through the state.
He also announced that he was signing an executive order giving the state the ability to take ventilators and personal protective equipment from institutions and companies that "don't need them right now" and redistribute them where needed.
He said the National Guard will be deployed to pick up the ventilators and personal protective equipment.
"I'm not going to be in a position where people are dying and we have ventilators in some other part of the state that isn't using them," Cuomo said.
Calling on the federal government to do more to get the state the resources it needs, Cuomo called the outbreak a "national disaster" that requires a "rolling deployment of resources."
"We need a national coordinated effort," he said.
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