NY Deploys National Guard To Virus Containment Area

NBC New York reports:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a slate of sweeping new directives Tuesday for Westchester County’s New Rochelle, which he described as the “most significant cluster in the country” and accounts for the lion’s share of the tri-state’s surging caseload.

Those measures include deploying National Guard troops to a Health Department command post and setting up a satellite testing facility and one-mile containment area in the city. To date, Westchester County has seen 108 confirmed COVID-19 cases; that’s 58 percent of all tri-state cases.

New Rochelle is home to the midtown Manhattan lawyer who has been linked to dozens of cases across multiple states. He was the second confirmed case in the state and its first instance of community spread.