Wife, son and daughter of Westchester coronavirus patient test positive for illness, along with neighbor who drove him to the hospital

The potentially lethal coronavirus spread from a Manhattan lawyer to his wife, son and daughter — along with a good Samaritan neighbor who drove the ailing attorney to the hospital, Gov. Cuomo announced Wednesday.

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The announcement of the four new cases, all linked to the 50-year-old Westchester County resident, brings the total number of infections in New York State to six. Tests for possible coronavirus on patients in Buffalo came back negative, as did the test on the husband of the healthcare worker who became New York’s first case of the virus, the governor said.

“There are going to be dozen and dozens and dozens of people and the more people you test the more will be positive,” the governor warned in announcing the new cases.

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The infected lawyer, hospitalized in critical condition at a Manhattan hospital, checked into a suburban hospital on Feb. 27 with respiratory problems but wasn’t diagnosed until four days later. His family members, along with his helpful neighbor, are quarantined at their suburban homes, the governor said.

Cuomo will head to Westchester this afternoon to meet with local and school officials.

Officials at Yeshiva University had already announced the 20-year-old son, a student at the Manhattan college, tested positive for the virus.

“We have unfortunately received news this morning that our student has tested positive for COVID-19," Yeshiva announced on its website Wednesday morning. “Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family as well as to all those affected.”

The private university cancelled classes at its Washington Heights campus for the day.

The boy’s father tested positive Monday for the coronavirus disease despite no known travel links to countries at the center of the outbreak, leading officials to order hundreds of congregants at his New Rochelle synagogue to quarantine in their homes.

State is recalling SUNY and CUNY students from study abroad programs in China, Italy, Iran and other places where virus is widespread. They will return on a chartered plane destined for Stewart Airport, and will then be quarantined for 14 days.

The attorney, who had underlying respiratory issues and first developed symptoms in late February, remains in critical condition at the New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Manhattan, according to health officials.

The man’s 14-year-old daughter attends SAR Academy and High School in the Bronx, which has been voluntarily shut down.