Gov. Andrew Cuomo will meet with New York business leaders Wednesday to implore them to have employees work in “shifts” to reduce further spread of coronavirus.

“Today I’m going to be speaking to business leaders and ask them to voluntarily — as opposed to any mandatory government action — voluntarily agree to reduce the density by running two shifts of workers, telecommuting and letting whatever workers they can, work from home,” the governor said during an interview with CNN, in his third media appearance of the morning tied to virus updates.

“This is about reducing the density. You know, we talk about social distancing, we shouldn’t be [less] than 6 feet from a person. You take a dense city, you take a New York City, there’s no such thing as social distancing, you’re always within 6 feet of a person. So we really need to talk more aggressive actions,” he added.

Health officials have warned against the dangers of “community spread,” as exhibited in the Westchester County city of New Rochelle, where 108 cases ballooned from one case, prompting an isolation zone and deployment of the National Guard.

Cuomo said New York’s overall positive disease count has gone up “about 20” and the state is “getting more numbers coming in” on top of yesterday’s tally of 173 cases.

“This is not going away on its own, the spread is not going to stop on its own. It is fully dependent on what we do. We’re going to make our own destiny and like it or not, we’re going to have to make some tough decisions and we’re going to have to start to act united to reduce the density,” he cautioned.

“More testing, more testing, more testing — that’s the only way we’re going to reduce the spread.”

State health officials are also mobilizing “backup quarantine hospital facilities” should hospitals already coping with infected people become overwhelmed.

“We have enough equipment, we have enough hospital beds, but if these numbers don’t slow, we’re starting to plan backup quarantine hospital facilities, mobile pop-up hospitals, if you will, to make sure we have the capacity for acute cases that need hospitalization,” said Cuomo.

“Most people, 60 percent, 70 percent, will not require any hospitalization and they’ll self-resolve,” he added.

The governor is also seriously considering canceling the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City, but didn’t commit to calling for a full cancellation just yet.

“We’re talking about that literally today,” he said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio earlier said he and city officials are also “having conversations” about canceling the celebration scheduled for March 17, following the lead of major cities like Boston, Mass., and Dublin, Ireland.