4 states added to NY travel advisory, bringing total to 35

Posted 8 September 2020 at 2:07 pm

Delaware, Maryland, Ohio and West Virginia are on the list

Press Release, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Office

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced four additional states – Delaware, Maryland, Ohio and West Virginia – meet the metrics to qualify for New York State’s Covid-19 travel advisory.

Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands have been removed.

The advisory requires individuals who have traveled to New York from areas with significant community spread to quarantine for 14 days. The quarantine applies to any person arriving from an area with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a 7-day rolling average or an area with a 10 percent or higher positivity rate over a 7-day rolling average.

“Individuals coming from other states continue to be a problem, and today we’re adding four more states to New York’s travel advisory. We now have 35 high-risk states in this country, which is incredible,” Governor Cuomo said. “We’re entering a new, different post-Labor Day phase. After Labor Day, people start to get back to work, schools are opening, activity is increasing, colleges are opening, you see traffic starting to increase. So we have to keep that in mind as we move forward and we need to remain vigilant and smart so that we don’t backslide.”

The full, updated travel advisory list includes: Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin and West Virginia.

New York State’s Covid-19 infection rate has been below 1 percent for 32 straight days. Of the 57,826 test results reported to New York State yesterday, 557, or 0.96 percent, were positive.

Today’s data is summarized briefly below: