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New York City has recorded 1664 new cases of COVID-19 in a single day, taking the total number to 3615. 

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the shocking statistic in a press conference held Thursday afternoon, with the official number soaring by over 1000 in the hours since state Governor Andrew Cuomo updated the public earlier in the morning. 

He later told CNN that the city will run out of medical supplies in between two and three weeks if infections continue at the current rate. 

New York City has requested 15,000 ventilators, three million N95 masks, 50 million surgical masks and  25 million gowns, gloves and coveralls. 

'I said very clearly that for the month of March, we have the supplies that we need, the city has very strong reserves of the kind of supplies that I talked about... [But] it is going into April that I'm worried about. I don't have the perfect day for you, we're assessing all the time but it is a day, two weeks from now or three weeks from now where we must, by then, have had a very substantial resupply.'