NY adds Rhode Island to travel advisory, Delaware and Washington DC come off list
Press Release, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Office
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that an additional state meets the metrics to qualify for the travel advisory requiring individuals who have traveled to New York from those states, all of which have significant community spread, to quarantine for 14 days.
The newly-added state is Rhode Island. Delaware and Washington, D.C. have been removed. 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.
“Our progress in New York is even better than we expected, thanks to the hard work of New Yorkers,” Cuomo said. “Our numbers continue to decline steadily, and for the third straight day in a row, there were no reported deaths in New York City. But we must protect that progress, which is why today we are adding another state to our travel advisory. We cannot go back to the hell we experienced just a few months ago – and surging infection rates across the country threaten to bring us back there – so we must all remain vigilant.”
The full, updated travel advisory list, includes 34 states: Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
The list also includes Puerto Rico.
The governor also said today that of the 70,993 test results reported to New York State yesterday, 746, or 1.05 percent, were positive.
