New York coronavirus patients will be moved to the USNS Comfort hospital ship in order to relieve a public health care system groaning under the weight of the pandemic.

The hospital ship, docked in New York City harbor, has a 1,000-bed capacity.

At the same time, the Jacob Javits Convention Center will have a temporary hospital of 2,500 beds to also accommodate COVID-positive patients.

The move was approved by President Donald Trump and urged by Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the last several days.

Both sites were originally slated to house non-coronavirus patients.

Cuomo in an interview on MSNBC called both sites a “relief valve” for the hard-hit New York City metropolitan area.

Cuomo also credited the federal government with providing the support.

“You look at the numbers in New York, no one anticipated these numbers and this level of need and the state can't do it on its own,” Cuomo said in the interview on Monday. “We do need federal assistance.”

Ventilators, meanwhile, remain the key piece of equipment. For now, the shortage officials had feared has not materialized.

“So there's no hospital in downstate New York that needs ventilating capacity today,” Cuomo said. “As you heard on a previous report that you did, every hospital will say we're okay for today. We're okay for the next couple days. But beyond that, we can't answer, and that's true for the entire system.”

Cuomo is yet to formally issue an executive order that would take 20 percent of unused stockpiled ventilators from hospitals in other areas of the state and bring them to downstate facilities.

New York is receiving ventilator donations from China, Oregon, Washington state and California.