Most people who have tested positive for coronavirus in New York City are younger than 50, according to figures released by the city Saturday.

This does not reflect the ages of those who have died, only people confirmed to be infected with the virus.

Overall, 57 percent of those who have tested positive in the city are 49 or younger. People 18 to 49 years old make up the majority, 54 percent, the city said. The next largest group are those age 50 to 64, who account for 23 percent of positive test results so far.

The accounting reflects data known to the city through 5:30 p.m. Friday. 

On Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said, "We are now the epicenter of this crisis" in the United States.

Flights to all New York City-area and Philadelphia airports were briefly halted Saturday, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

The agency temporarily grounded flights after it said Saturday that an air traffic controller trainee tested positive for the coronavirus. The trainee worked out of the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center in Ronkonkoma, on Long Island.

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Retired medical providers in New York are offering their help to combat the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

"Over 2,000 retired medical personnel have answered the call to come back out of retirement to protect people," the mayor said Friday.

The number of coronavirus cases in New York state increased by more than 3,000 and now tops 10,000. New York City alone has 6,211 cases, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday.

The White House did not provide a concrete timeline Saturday about when healthcare professionals can expect to have much-needed supplies, such as masks and ventilators.

Vice President Mike Pence told reporters at a press briefing that “companies would be producing millions of masks within a matter of weeks” and said that President Donald Trump “expanded liability protections to industrial masks so that they could now be used in hospitals.”

Trump, Pence and other members of the coronavirus task force were asked by reporters when healthcare workers could expect to have the supplies. No one was able to provide a timeline. 

Trump instead criticized reporters and insisted that, despite having been in office for over three years now, any slow response or lack of preparedness was because of a broken system he inherited.

President Donald Trump insisted Saturday that there was cause for optimism about drug therapies for coronavirus, despite caution from his top government scientists that the treatments’ effectiveness was not proven.

“Look, I feel, as the expression goes: what do we have to lose?,” Trump said, making the case for offering different drugs, which he also tweeted  about earlier in the day, that have been used in other countries to combat the coronavirus but have not been proven to work in any controlled studies.

"I feel very confident. I've seen things that surprise me frankly,” Trump said, speaking at a press briefing at the White House.

Trump’s director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, reminded the public during the same briefing that there is not evidence to claim that the drugs work.

“Many of the things that you hear out here are what I had called anecdotal reports. They may be true, but they are anecdotal,” Fauci said. “The president is talking about hope for people.” 

Italy's death toll from coronavirus continues to soar, with 793 fatalities in the last 24 hours.

Deaths from COVID-19 in the country now stand at 4,825.

The total number of cases in the state also shot up by 6,557 since Friday to a total of 53,578 coronavirus cases, officials said Saturday.

Angelo Borrelli, chief of civil protection, said 6,072 people have recovered after contracting the disease.

WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence said he and his wife, Karen Pence, would get tested for the coronavirus Saturday afternoon after a member of Pence's staff tested positive for the virus Friday night.

“I am pleased to report he's doing well,” Pence said of the staffer. “He had mild cold-like symptoms for about a day and a half. He has not been to the White House since Monday. Neither the President nor I had direct contact with that staff person."

Pence said that both him and his wife felt fine and were not displaying any symptoms.

But given his “unique position” as vice president and as head of the White House’s coronavirus task force, Pence said he would go ahead and get tested.

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Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey has issued a stay-at-home order for nearly all of the state's 9 million residents.

New Jersey now joins the list of other states ordering such sweeping restrictions in the bid to slow the spread of coronavirus.

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