The state of Oregon was reported to be sending 140 ventilators. On April 4, Governor Cuomo announced that the Chinese government had arranged for a donation of 1,000 ventilators to be sent to New York through foundations run by billionaires Jack Ma and Joseph Tsai. On March 31, the first death of a child from COVID-19 in New York City was recorded. Refrigerator trucks were set up on city streets outside hospitals to accommodate the overflow of bodies of the deceased. Field hospitals were also set up in several places citywide. The USNS Comfort hospital ship arrived in New York Harbor on March 30. Refrigerated trucks filled with COVID-19 victims outside a hospital Between March 28 and 29, the number of deaths in New York City tripled from the previous 24-hour period 222 people died of the virus, bringing the city's fatalities to 672, with 30,765 confirmed cases. Queens was the worst-affected borough by number of deaths, with over a third of total deaths the majority of the deceased had underlying health issues. On March 27, infection in New York City surpassed 23,000, with 365 deaths. The reasons for the high infection rate continue to be discussed. At the time, the city's infection rate was five times higher than the rest of the country, and its cases were one-third of total confirmed US cases. The virus then grew exponentially by March 25, over 17,800 cases had been confirmed in New York City, with 199 deaths. New York City public schools closed as of March 16, and remote learning began on March 23. Cuomo announced a New Rochelle 'containment area' on March 10, and the World Health Organization declared a global COVID-19 pandemic on March 11. Six days later, on March 9, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that there were 16 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York City. On March 3, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the first recorded case of person-to-person spread in New York State had been confirmed via a New Rochelle man who was working at a law firm within One Grand Central Place in Midtown Manhattan. 2020 March 2020 NYPD taping off One Grand Central Place during the early afternoon of March 3, 2020, in response to New York's first confirmed case of COVID-19 person-to-person spread New York City Subway passengers on March 9, when there were 16 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York City, with NYC Transit Interim President Sarah Feinberg on the right While the first official case wasn't confirmed until March 1, researchers later estimated that approximately 10,700 New Yorkers had already contracted the virus by that time. Genomic analyses suggest the disease had been introduced to New York as early as January, and that most cases were linked to Europe, rather than Asia.

The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in New York State on March 1, 2020, in a 39-year-old health care worker who had returned home to Manhattan from Iran on February 25. The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. See also: COVID-19 pandemic in New York City and Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

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