By Azi Paybarah

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It’s Monday.

Weather: Cloudy, with a high in the mid- to upper 50s. Showers are possible in the afternoon.

Alternate-side parking: Suspended through tomorrow because of the coronavirus. Meters are in effect.

The number of coronavirus deaths in New York was expected to have pushed past 1,000 yesterday when the final data arrive today.

The statewide death toll was more than 960; at least 775 of those deaths were in New York City, according to the latest figures Sunday evening from the city and state, and county-level data compiled by The Times.

Governor Cuomo said earlier yesterday that more than 230 people had died in the state since Saturday. It was the state’s largest one-day increase in coronavirus deaths.

The projections, he said, suggested that the crisis would worsen.

“I don’t think there’s any way to look at those numbers without seeing thousands of people pass away,” the governor said.

As of yesterday evening, there were nearly 60,000 cases of the coronavirus in the state. More than half of those cases, nearly 34,000, were in New York City, according to data from the city and state.

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Mr. Cuomo extended his order for all nonessential workers to stay home until April 15.

More than 76,000 health care workers, many of them retirees, have volunteered to work in hospitals should the facilities become even more strained.

New York City recorded its first death of a patient younger than 18. City officials said the patient had underlying health conditions, but no other details were immediately available.

Patrick J. Foye, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said in a statement late Saturday. Mr. Foye was experiencing only mild symptoms and was keeping a full schedule, the M.T.A. said.

Mayor de Blasio said yesterday that New York City needed more medical supplies. “We have enough supplies to get to a week from today, with the exception of ventilators,” he told CNN. “We’re going to need at least several hundred more ventilators very quickly.”

The city’s 911 system has been overwhelmed by calls for medical distress apparently related to the virus. Typically, the system sees about 4,000 Emergency Medical Services calls a day. One day late last week, dispatchers took more than 7,000 calls.

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About 540 prisoners at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn could develop serious illnesses related to the coronavirus and should be released immediately, according to a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn federal court late Friday. Katie Rosenfeld, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said prisoners and family members were “terrified” that the jail would “very soon be overwhelmed with hundreds of people sick and dying inside the jail.”

President Trump backed away from his suggestion on Saturday of imposing an “enforceable” travel quarantine on the New York region, writing on Twitter that “a quarantine will not be necessary.” Mr. Cuomo had earlier called the idea a “declaration of war on states.”

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