New York Live Coronavirus Updates and Coverage

At the same time, pressure from parents, teachers, and politicians to close city schools accelerated. Sharon Lee, the acting Queens borough president, urged Queens parents to keep their children home from school on Monday. Some teachers were organizing a “sick out” as a show of protest, and some parents said they were planning on keeping their children home indefinitely starting on Monday.

Alarm spread through several school communities over the weekend after families learned of confirmed cases. Katie Dello Stritto, the principal of P.S. 58 in Brooklyn, informed parents in an email that a parent at the school had tested positive for the virus.

“I am advocating in every way that I can that our school, as well all New York City public schools, be closed at this time,” Ms. Dello Stritto wrote. “I cannot make that decision.”

All public and private schools in Nassau County, which includes some of the most densely populated areas of Long Island, will be closed starting Monday, Laura Curran, the county executive, announced Sunday. It is the latest system in the New York region to close.

In New Jersey, Mr. Murphy encouraged people to limit contact with each other, especially students who are off school.

“There is too much business as usual,” he said. . “I can not emphasize enough how important it is to take personal responsibility and to avoid small gatherings, and especially large,” said .She added, “Our lives will change as we work together to protect our state.”The woman in her 50s, whose death was linked on Saturday night to coronavirus, is believed to have contracted the virus at a family gathering that included a relative from Bergen County; several other family members are also sick, Ms. Persichilli said.“Everyone should limit their social interactions,” Ms. Persichilli said.

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The number of confirmed cases in New York is now over 700.