New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday he is increasing the penalty for failing to comply with social-distancing rules to up to $1,000. "Now is not the time to be playing Frisbee with your friends in the park," the governor told reporters at his daily briefing on the coronavirus pandemic. Under social-distancing rules, New Yorkers are being asked to maintain a 6-foot distance from others in public places. New York is the epicenter of the U.S. pandemic, with a total of 130,689 cases and 4,758 deaths as of Monday, according to Cuomo. There have been 599 fatalities in the last 24 hours, he said, up only slightly from 594 on Saturday, which means the death tally has been flat for two days, he said. That offers the first sign the curve may be flattening, as health experts agree needs to happen to contain the disease and ease the burden on health-care workers and hospitals. The U.S. has the highest number of cases of the virus in the world at 337,971 and 9,683 deaths, according to data aggregated by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.