Mayor Bill de Blasio wants New Yorkers to rat out their fellow citizens who are not following social distancing orders during the coronavirus pandemic by taking a photo of the violators on their cell phones and texting it to the city.

'It's simple: just snap a photo and text it to 311-692,' the mayor tweeted Saturday.

In a video posted to his Twitter account, de Blasio praised the people of his city, saying: 'You have been extraordinary at social distancing.'

'It has taken every fiber of our beings to figure out how to do this because we're warm, emotional people,' he said.

'We're used to being close to each other.' 

But the mayor added that 'there's some people who need to get the message.'

'And that means sometimes making sure the enforcement is there to educate people and make clear we've got to have social distancing,' the mayor said.