N.Y., N.J. and Connecticut Add Three States to 14-Day Quarantine
Cuomo Adds Three States to New York’s 14-Day Quarantine List
(Bloomberg) -- New York, New Jersey and Connecticut added three states to their 14-day quarantine rule, bringing the total to 19 states.
The travel advisory -- which now includes Delaware, Kansas and Oklahoma -- applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents or a state with a 10% or higher positivity rate, each over a 7-day rolling average.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said several recent outbreaks in his state “are directly tied to travel from Covid-19 hot spots.”
The full list of states subject to the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut advisory is: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.
“New Yorkers did the impossible - we went from the worst infection rate in the United States to one of the best - and the last thing we need is to see another spike of Covid-19” Governor Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday in a statement.
New York, initially the epicenter of the U.S outbreak, reported an additional 588 cases on July 6, an increase of 1%, for a total of 398,237. After a lockdown, Cuomo began to reopen New York in regions and in phases. Murphy is reopening statewide in phases.
Cuomo has referred to the quarantine as a requirement subject to fines, while Murphy has referred to it as an advisory.
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