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Two hundred nurses employed by an interstate health system in New York and Connecticut have been out of work since potentially being exposed to coronavirus patients, a report said.

The health care workers from Nuvance Health will remain sidelined until they can obtain coronavirus tests to determine if they were infected, according to the Hartford Courant, citing Gov. Ned Lamont.

Lamont was discussing the dire situation at Danbury Hospital, which he said was “at capacity,” on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes” when he made the shocking revelation.

“Well I can tell you, Danbury Hospital is already at capacity. And they have 200 nurses on furlough because they were in contact,” Lamont told host Hayes.

The hospital is treating the state’s first coronavirus patient. A staffer there, who resides in New York, had also tested positive for the virus last week.

It’s unclear if all the furloughed nurses are based solely at Danbury Hospital. But, according to the Hartford Courant, they all work for Nuvance Health system, which is comprised of seven hospitals in western Connecticut and New York’s Hudson Valley region.

“If I can test those nurses, I can potentially get them back into the game a lot sooner,” Lamont said Monday night.

“We’ve got a surge in use, demand is going up and I’m losing nurses by the day who have to furlough themselves for a period of time. That’s a priority for testing for me.”