Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized on Friday upstate county governments that have urged people from New York City and the surrounding region to not travel north amid the pandemic. 

"I don't like it socially or culturally," Cuomo said in an interview on WAMC public radio. "I don't like what it says of us as one state."

Cuomo also pointed to comments made earlier in the week by Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, who said a ban on travel or a 14-day quarantine for people who live the metropolitan region medically uncessary. 

The Trump administration earlier this week recommended the 14-day quarantine for people who have traveled outside of New York City, a national hotspot for the coronavirus pandemic. 

Upstate New York counties subsequently discouraged people from traveling north and to self-quarantine if they do. 

The concern stems, in part, from the potential of rural health care centers being overwhelmed by the influx of patients due to the virus.