Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s daily briefing on the virus outbreak took a personal turn Saturday, noting the presumed deaths of his ex-wife’s niece and her son in a boating accident on Chesapeake Bay.

Cuomo described Friday’s tragedy involving Maeve Kennedy McKean, 40, and her son, Gideon, 8, as “emotionally taxing.”

“The most difficult level is the human level, it is for me, anyway,” he said. “My daughters’ cousins have a tragedy. They can’t hug each other, they can’t be with each other to grieve together.”

Cuomo has three daughters — Michaela, Mariah, and Cara Kennedy-Cuomo — with ex-wife Kerry Kennedy, who is the sister of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, McKean’s mother.

Kerry Kennedy and Townsend are the daughters of Robert F. Kennedy.

Cuomo and Kerry Kennedy divorced in 2003 after 13 years of marriage.