Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday ordered the plan that will affect 260 SUNY students studying in Italy, South Korea and Japan. Speaking on Long Island Thursday afternoon, he said his administration is still working on where students will be housed in isolation for 14 days.

"Preferably they are going to be in SUNY dorms," Cuomo said. "We are working through the logistics now."

Officials at the State University of New York headquarters in Albany declined to comment.

One of the two state officials speaking Thursday said Buffalo State could hold up to 105 of the returning students, Brockport would have a maximum of 95 and Stony Brook would house the rest.

The quarantine order is mandatory, SUNY officials said.

SUNY is telling students overseas that they will be offered transportation back to New York State on a state-supplied charter flight if they agree to enter the campus quarantine settings.

State officials could change their minds in a situation that has been evolving and changing in recent days. Cuomo officials said Wednesday that the quarantine sites would be somewhere in Western New York, the Utica and Rome area and on Long Island.