The number of people who have tested positive for coronavirus in New York state has risen to 44 as at least 4,000 people have been urged to self-quarantine to prevent the spread of the disease.

This afternoon, Governer Andrew Cuomo said that 'most' of the cases are linked to a Manhattan lawyer who tested positive earlier in the week.

There are now 33 cases in Westchester County, five in New York City, four in Nassau County and two in Rockland County.

Details of all the new cases were not immediately clear, but Cuomo said there were 'a number of young people' and he suspects 'they are related to existing cases. At least five people have been hospitalized across the state.

There are also 44 people in mandatory quarantine, including 33 in Westchester, nine in New York City and one in Nassau County.

NEW YORK STATE CORONAVIRUS CASES WESTCHESTER COUNTY: 33 NEW YORK CITY: 5 NASSAU COUNTY: 4 ROCKLAND COUNTY: 2 Advertisement

Some of the new 22 new cases announced this morning include a man in Manhattan, three members of the Young Israel congregation in New Rochelle, two friends of the lawyer, two staff members who live in Rockland County and worked at a bat mitzvah, and three people connected to New York Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital.

Cuomo said that about 4,000 people who live in New York state are under 'precautionary quarantine'. It includes at least 2,700 people living in New York City. This means they were in the proximity of someone who tested positive, or returned from traveling to one of the coronavirus hot spots - Italy, Iran, China, South Korea or Japan.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo confirmed 'most' of the cases in the state are linked to a Manhattan lawyer who tested positive earlier in the week. Eleven of those were new cases reported this morning. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city's latest case is a man in his 50s with 'mild' symptoms

There are 44 confirmed cases in New York state. This includes two cases in Rockland County, five in New York City, 33 in Westchester and four in Nassau County

This morning, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed that a man in his 50s tested positive on Thursday. He is also linked to the the lawyer, who was the first reported case in the city.

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Fever

Dry cough

Shortness of breath

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'We have one new case, this is a man in his 50s, who lives in Manhattan. He has mild symptoms at this moment, and we are testing his family. Disease detectives are following up with his contacts,' he said.

'He is associated in some way with the lawyer who lives in Westchester and worked in Midtown.'

The lawyer, in his 50s, has been hospitalized at New York Presbyterian Columbia in the intensive care unit since Monday. He commuted daily from New Rochelle in Westchester, where he lives, on the Metro-North railway line daily to Manhattan for work.

Earlier today, it was revealed that the rabbi of the synagogue attended by a Manhattan lawyer and his family who have all tested positive for coronavirus has now also been diagnosed with the disease.

Rabbi Reuven Fink, of the Young Israel of New Rochelle synagogue, fell ill after coming into contact with an infected congregant, believed to be the 50-year-old attorney.

Rabbi Fink also teaches at Yevisha University in Manhattan, which the lawyer's 20-year-old son attends.

On Thursday, the university issued a statement naming Fink in order to tell his students to self-isolate as a precaution.

He is one of 17 people the lawyer, who was the second person in New York to be diagnosed, has infected.

'We are taking every precaution by canceling all classes on Wilf Campus in Washington Heights for Wednesday March 4, 2020.

'This includes all in-person graduate courses on that campus as well as at the boys' high school.'

Additionally, the Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey, has closed due to fears that some of its students might have been exposed to the Manhattan lawyer who lives in Westchester who has the virus and has now infected 17 others with it.

PIX 11 reports that school staff are concerned the students attended a bat mitzvah in New Rochelle and also a hockey game in Riverdale, where the lawyer's daughter attends school.

Meanwhile a hotel in a Baltimore suburb yesterday canceled the reservation of the Yeshiva University men's basketball team over fears of the virus.

Later Thursday, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said the games on campus involving Yeshiva and other teams in the NCAA Division III basketball tournament would be played without fans in the stands because of three confirmed cases of coronavirus in Maryland.

The Young Israel of New Rochelle synagogue in the affluent New York suburb which is at the center of the Big Apple's growing outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 disease

Yeshiva University, where the rabbi teaches two classes, named him on Thursday to warn students of his to self-quarantine

This chart shows the contact the Manhattan lawyer initial contact with people, and places he went to where people have been tested for coronavirus

This map shows where the Manhattan lawyer linked to 'most' of the coronavirus cases traveled to, or may have come into contact with people with.

4,000 people across New York state have been put in precautionary quarantine for 14 days

CUOMO BLASTS GOVT. FOR LACK OF TESTING New York Governor Andrew Cuomo blasted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Trump administration over their mixed messages regarding coronvirus testing. In a press conference on Friday, Cuomo cited the contradictory statements issued by the federal health agency and Vice President Mike Pence. 'I don't understand CDC's instructions, they say anyone can get tested if they want...but Pence says we don't have enough tests,' Cuomo told reporters. 'How can you bring in more people into the pipeline than you can address at the end of the pipeline?' he said. 'That is not only bad government and poor planning, it will increase the fear.' It comes just hours after Dr Anthony Fauci, a top official at the NIH, said he can't make any promises about when enough test kits will be made available. Cuomo argued that people will be fearful because they won't understand why doctors don't have the capacity to test them. 'Their position is absurd and nonsensical,' the governor said. 'I think the anxiety and the fear is a bigger problem than the virus.' Cuomo also lamented that CDC and FDA were slow in approving New York's use of private labs as well as giving New York State's Wadsworth Lab And NYC's Public-Health Lab permission to test for the virus. Advertisement

Hilton spokeswoman Laura Ford said the hotel in Pikesville is an independently owned and operated property. Hotel management did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Health officials said he has severe pneumonia that put him in more danger than others from the disease.

His family, including his wife, son and daughter, remain quarantined in their home in New Rochelle. A neighbor, who initially drove the attorney to the hospital when he started suffering symptoms last Friday night, is also under self-quarantine at home.

One thousand people who may have come into contact with the attorney, who commuted every day to midtown Manhattan, have been ordered to self-quarantine.

Meanwhile, the all-girls Spence School on Manhattan's Upper East Side closed on Friday for 'sanitization' as did the all-boys Collegiate School on the Upper West Side due to a family with ties to both that are being monitored. There are no known ties to the Manhattan lawyer. The schools are set to reopen on Monday

Yeshiva coach Elliot Steinmetz said the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Pikesville canceled the reservation, forcing the team to book rooms at a different hotel.

'I made it very clear to the hotel that it's discrimination,' Steinmetz said.

'I basically said to them: 'Do you have a checkbox on your website that says that you've been in an area with suspected coronavirus?' And they said no.

'So I said: 'Is it just for the guests of Yeshiva University?' And they said yes. I told them that that's called discrimination.'

Yevisha University's Washington Heights campus in Manhattan. The rabbi's students have been advised to self-isolate

The all-girls Spence School on Manhattan's Upper East Side is closed on Friday due to a family with ties to the school who are now under quarantine

The all-boys Collegiate School in New York City's Upper West Side has also closed

According to The New York Post, the family likely has a child at each school. One of the parents recently returned from an unspecified international trip and is awaiting test results in quarantine.

The death toll from the respiratory illness rose to 14 in the US, with two more deaths in King County in Washington state being reported. At least nine people have died in an outbreak at a nursing facility in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland. More than 250 people across the country have been infected.

MTA in New York City has stepped up its cleaning protocols, and are disinfecting stations, subway cars and trains regularly

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EVERY NEW YORKER WHO HAS 'RECENTLY' RETURNED FROM FIVE CORONAVIRUS HOT-SPOT COUNTRIES IS TOLD TO SELF-QUARANTINE FOR TWO WEEKS

Every New Yorker who has traveled and recently returned from China, Japan, Iran, Italy and South Korea have been told by the city's mayor to self-quarantine for 14 days as a coronavirus precaution.

CORONAVIRUS HOTSPOT COUNTRIES De Blasio is asking all New Yorkers who have recently returned from these countries to self-quarantine; China Japan South Korea Iran Italy Advertisement

Mayor Bill de Blasio made the recommendation at a press conference on Thursday where he struck a more concerned tone than in previous days and described the spread of the disease in New York City as 'unpredictable and worrisome'.

'Our level of concern is rising for sure... for all New Yorkers, if you have recently returned from one of the five countries, we're asking you to isolate yourself as a precaution for 14 days.

'Obviously, if you have symptoms then you need to get to care and testing,' he said.

He did not specify what he meant by 'recently' but he later referenced a 'time-frame'.

In most cases with the virus so far, the window of concern is 14 days.

Tests are now being carried out by the hundreds to determine who the four New Yorkers infected with the coronavirus came into contact with and if they too now have the disease.

However Mayor de Blasio said the city cannot get enough tests fast enough to keep up.

The city has 1,000 tests currently, but with fast-growing numbers, de Blasio said the city urgently needs more.

'Each day we may tell you something new about how this disease.

'The community spread issue, we are seeking guidance from WHO and CDC, now that it's clearly established as a phenomenon here,' he said.

He went on to say that the 'big picture' is that 80 percent of people who have become infected have recovered.

'We need the ability to test and many people as possible as quickly as possible, we cannot do that without help from the federal government.

'We do not have the physical capacity we need. We need the FDA to speed up the approval of the test developed by private companies. We have to maximize our ability to do what we need to do,' he said.

'The last 48 hours are sobering.

'Community spread is an entirely different ball game.

'I don't want people to assume, I don't want people to overreact because this is going to be a day to day, hour by hour thing.

'Community spread is different. It makes it a lot harder for us to control the situation.

'We're all very sober right now about what tomorrow could bring or the day after that, he said.