(CNN) Days after a hospital system said it wouldn't allow women to have visitors during childbirth, New York state quashed that policy.

Last week, NewYork-Presbyterian health care system made the " very difficult decision " to ban such visitors, including the mothers' partners, to try to curb the spread of coronavirus.

But on Saturday, state officials announced plans for an executive order to allow women to have one visitor.

"In no hospital in New York will a woman be forced to be alone when she gives birth. Not now, not ever," Gov. Andrew Cuomo tweeted Saturday.

The state Department of Health previously issued guidance on March 21 saying "the visitation policy requires hospitals to allow one support person in labor and delivery settings if the patient so desires."

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