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New York City’s coronavirus cases have skyrocketed in less than a week from 25 on Monday to 269 Sunday as Mayor Bill de Blasio considers locking down the Big Apple to contain the outbreak.

“Every option is on the table in a crisis,” de Blasio said Sunday morning on CNN.

“We’ve never seen anything like this,” he said.

The mayor did not say what a lockdown would entail, but he detailed the powers he has to shut down the city when he declared a state of emergency last week.

“So there’s the ability to establish a curfew. There’s the ability to regulate whether vehicles or individuals may enter or leave specific parts of the city. There is the ability to close down public transportation,” de Blasio said at a press briefing on March 12.

“There’s the ability to order hospitals to postpone elective procedures, to ration supplies or impose restrictions on supplies and prices – and price gouging,” he said.

He can even “suspend or limit alcohol use, firearms, explosives, flammable material and liquids.”

Finally, the declaration enables the mayor to bar people from being on the streets or in public places, create emergency shelters, and limit maximum building occupancy.

“These are some of the examples. So they’re very extensive capacity,” the mayor said last week.

De Blasio expects the city’s coronavirus tally to rise to 1,000 in the next few days.

“It’s changing every hour so we’re going to constantly make new decisions,” de Blasio said about the dynamic public health emergency.

He also called on the Trump Administration to assume a war-time footing.

“We need the federal government to take over the supply chain right now,” he said.

“Right now we have to make sure the places in this country that need more ventilators, surgical masks, they need hand sanitizers, that that is a federalized dynamic where those factories that produce those goods are put on 24/7 shifts,” de Blasio said.

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“Right behind that is the question of food and basic supplies. If the federal government doesn’t realize this is the equivalent of war already there is no way the states and localities can make all the adjustments we need to,” he said.