Family of Westchester Man and Neighbor Confirmed With Coronavirus

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, at a news conference, said that the man’s wife; his son, 22; and daughter, 14, were all confirmed cases.

The neighbor in Westchester County, who also tested positive, drove the man to the hospital.

The additional results bring the number of cases of the new coronavirus in New York state to six.

With the virus spreading, hundreds of students and faculty at State University of New York campuses who were studying abroad in five countries, including Iran, China and Italy, that have been epicenters of the illness would be brought back to the United States, Cuomo said.

The students would be quarantined upon arrival, Cuomo said. The state was identifying dormitories where they would be isolated.

On Tuesday, officials announced that Westchester father, a man of about 50 who works at a law firm in Manhattan, had the illness.

The father was hospitalized at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan in serious condition while his family was quarantined in their home in New Rochelle.

The daughter is a student at the SAR Academy and High School in the Bronx, which had been voluntarily shut down by administrators on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The son is a student at Yeshiva University in Manhattan. The school’s administrators said in a statement that the classes at the university’s campus in Washington Heights were canceled, although dorms and food services remained open.

Yeshiva University also said that a law school student was in self-quarantine after having contact with the law firm where the Westchester man works. They did not provide an update on the student’s condition.

Authorities announced the state’s first confirmed case of the new coronavirus on Sunday, saying a health care worker had been infected in Iran, where the illness is raging. She began exhibiting symptoms after returning home but had kept herself largely isolated.

Her husband had been tested for the virus but the tests came back negative, Cuomo said on Wednesday.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times .