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Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to set up four emergency hospitals inside Manhattan’s Javits Center to help combat the coronavirus, as the number of state cases blew past 15,000, with nearly 10,000 in the five boroughs.

“This is literally a matter of life and death,” Cuomo said of federal aid efforts in general during an Albany press conference. “[If] we get these facilities up, we get the supplies, we will save lives.

“If we don’t, we will lose lives. … That is the simple fact of this matter,” he continued, adding, “From my point of view, construction can start tomorrow.”

There are now 15,168 confirmed cases statewide with 114 deaths, Cuomo said, while New York City now has 9,654 cases with 63 deaths, according to City Hall.

Cuomo formally green-lit the conversion of facilities statewide into hospitals as the number of cases spiked, threatening to push existing hospitals to the brink.

“We have 53,000 hospital beds available,” said Cuomo. “Right now, the curve suggests we could need 110,000 hospital beds. And that is an obvious problem.”

Cuomo called for FEMA to set up four, 250-bed field hospitals inside the Javits Center.

Along with adding beds, the FEMA hospitals have the perk of coming with their own federal staffs and a stash of critical supplies, Cuomo said.

Ventilators, medical masks and other essential supplies have grown increasingly scarce, with the demand pitting states against each other in high-stakes bidding wars.

“We are competing against the states,” said Cuomo. “In some ways, we’re savaging other states.”

Cuomo also said that opportunistic suppliers have taken advantage, calling price gouging a “tremendous problem.

“There are masks that we were paying 85 cents for. We’re now paying $7,” he said.

Cuomo also mandated that New York’s hospitals to find a way to increase their capacities by at least 50 percent, with the ultimate goal of a 100-percent increase.

Cuomo also requested that the US Army Corps of Engineers erect temporary hospitals on Long Island and in Westchester, from which the state’s rash of cases first exploded.

“We are ready to go,” said Cuomo. “I’m asking the president to do what I did here in the state of New York: Cut the red tape, cut the bureaucracy. … Let’s have them [the temporary hospitals] in place before that trajectory hits its apex.”

Meanwhile, the state has secured from the feds a stash of trial drugs that have shown promising results against the contagion, with trials set to start Tuesday.

That includes 70,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine, 10,000 doses of Zithromax and 750,000 doses of chloroquine.

“We are all optimistic that it could work,” said Cuomo. “But let’s find out, and let’s find out quickly.”

Additional reporting by Julia Marsh