New York is sending in the National Guard to a containment area in Westchester County amid what Gov. Andrew Cuomo describes as the state's "greatest public health challenge" in the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
Cuomo in a news conference on Tuesday announced the containment zone that will be established in New Rochelle, where the governor said there is "probably the largest cluster in the United States of these cases." New York has confirmed 108 coronavirus cases in Westchester compared to 36 in New York City.
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