Mayor Bill de Blasio raised the potential for a citywide quarantine similar to northern Italy’s lockdown amid the global coronavirus outbreak.

“It’s a possibility but I think people are getting a little ahead of ourselves and we should be careful,” the mayor said on CNN Monday.

He noted the transmission of Covid-19 comes from close contact and is only deadly for people who are already sick or elderly. There were 16 cases of the disease in the Big Apple as of Monday morning.

Hizzoner also addressed the possible closure of the city’s public schools.

“To me, it’s a high bar for a closure. One thing I think makes sense is you have a situation in a school [with] a temporary closure, a specific targeted closure for limited periods of time,” de Blasio said.

“I don’t want to see mass closures, I want to see pinpoint response,” he said.