STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The U.S. Navy hospital ship expected to help support medical needs during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak will arrive in New York Harbor on Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

The USNS Comfort (T-AH-20), like other Naval hospital ships, contains 12 fully equipped operating rooms, 1,000 hospital beds, laboratory facilities and an oxygen-producing plant.

“This [ship] is staffed by federal medical professionals. It is not for COVID-19 patients, but it is to take the backfill from hospitals,” Cuomo said Sunday during a press conference.

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Previously, the Comfort has been deployed around the world in response to wars and natural disasters. Most recently, the ship was deployed to Central America, South America and the Caribbean to assist nations’ healthcare systems, according to the Navy.

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrive to speak during the departure ceremony for the hospital ship USNS Comfort at Naval Base Norfolk on Saturday, March 28, 2020, in Norfolk, Va. The Comfort is headed to New York to aid in the coronavirus outbreak. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) TNSTNS

HOSPITAL COMING TO CSI

The federal government on Saturday approved the plan to turn portions of the College of Staten Island’s Willowbrook campus into a 1,000-bed field hospital and use more than 200 beds at South Beach Psychiatric Center for infected patients as the strategy to fight coronavirus (COVID-19) intensifies.

Cuomo previously said that it would take about 10 days for the CSI hospital to be completed.

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