The Javits Center in New York City is just one temporary hospital New York has constructed to accommodate patients as the coronavirus outbreak worsens. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

The state has also distributed hundreds of ventilators to hospitals hardest hit with the most critical patients.

NEW YORK — Construction on two more temporary hospitals is underway in New York as COVID-19 cases surge.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a news briefing Thursday that construction has begun on the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, which will add 750 hospital beds, and a health care facility in Staten Island that will treat coronavirus patients.

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The two new locations are in addition to several sites the state has converted into facilities to treat patients with conditions other than COVID-19 in order to free up space in hospitals for those infected with the virus. Health officials estimate that the state will need capacity for between 70,000 and 110,000 people.

New York currently has 53,000 hospital beds and is adding thousands more with the additional sites.

Officials report more than 92,380 coronavirus cases in the state, with 51,809 of those cases in New York City. Nearly 13,400 people are hospitalized and 3,396 patients are in intensive care units. The state has seen 2,373 deaths. In good news, Cuomo said, the number of coronavirus patients being discharged from hospitals is increasing.

Despite the state making tens of thousands more hospital beds available, the governor said they are useless without staff and supplies, and Cuomo has been asking retired health care workers and out-of-state health care workers to volunteer in the state's fight against the coronavirus.

About 21,000 out-of-state workers have volunteered, bringing the additional medical personnel being deployed to hospitals up to 85,400. Along with workers, additional supplies are being sent as well.

Cuomo thanked volunteers for "their patriotism" and their "dedication to their calling" in public health. He promised New York would "return the favor" when other states experience the worst of the pandemic.

"When your community needs help, New Yorkers will be there," the governor said. "You have my personal word on that and it is also the New York tradition."

New York currently has 2,200 ventilators in its stockpile, which is estimated to last the next six days. Four hundred ventilators have been sent to hospitals in New York, Long Island and Westchester, areas hit hardest in the state.

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The state is also splitting ventilators to serve two patients at once and converting similar machines to function as ventilators. About 750 of those machines arrived in the state on Wednesday.

Hospital supplies will be assessed each night, Cuomo said, to determine which hospital needs which supplies. The state's stockpile has more than 467,000 face shields, 106,000 goggles, 2 million gowns, 2.3 million N95 masks, more than 25 million gloves and 7.7 million surgical masks.

The governor asked businesses that are able to begin manufacturing whatever supplies they can in order to provide enough personal protective equipment to health care workers.

Experts have estimated that the height of the outbreak could occur in as little as seven days or as many as 30 days, though Cuomo estimates it will hit by the end of the month.