People traveling to New York from Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, and Wisconsin will now have to self-quarantine for at least 14 days upon entry, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday, while individuals coming from Delaware will no longer face that mandate.
With those changes, New York now has a quarantine order in effect for 22 states, which are considered to have too high of an infection rate to allow travel without restrictions.
The full list of states where travelers have to quarantine when they enter New York now includes Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin.
New York uses a metric showing the infection rate over a period of time to determine which states to place on that list. It’s changed on a rolling basis.
Cuomo also warned that, while New York is in a better place than states with rising infection rates, residents should continue to follow the state’s guidelines, including social distancing and wearing masks.
State and local contact tracers have apparently found that more than a third of people who attended a Fourth of July weekend party in Suffolk County became infected with the disease.
"I cannot be more clear: Look at what's happening in the rest of the country — if we are not smart, if we don't wear masks and socially distance, cases will spike,” Cuomo said. “No one wants to go back to the hell we experienced three months ago, so please stay vigilant."
A few of the state’s indicators for the disease ticked up in Tuesday’s data. Total hospitalizations ticked up to 820 Monday, an increase of 28 over Sunday’s numbers. Of those, 101 people were receiving treatment with a ventilator Monday, which was a slight dip from Sunday.
Another 912 cases of the coronavirus were identified Monday, according to the state. That’s the highest number of cases reported in a single day in nearly two weeks, though that number has varied slightly depending on the number of people tested in any given day.
On Monday, about 60,000 people were tested for the disease in New York, meaning 1.5% of those individuals were positive for the virus.
Five more people died from COVID-19 Monday, bringing the statewide total number of fatalities to 24,994.
