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- The mandatory 14-day quarantine now includes travelers arriving in New York from Alaska, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Virginia and Washington state.
- The quarantine applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a seven-day rolling average, or a state with a 10 percent or higher positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average.
- The expanded order comes as the coronavirus outbreak is worsening in many parts of the U.S.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Tuesday expanded the state’s mandatory quarantine order to include travelers from 10 additional states experiencing surges in coronavirus cases.
The mandatory 14-day quarantine now includes travelers arriving in New York from Alaska, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Virginia and Washington state, Cuomo announced Tuesday.
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Travelers from those states are required to quarantine for 14 days if they visit New York, which was the nation’s epicenter of the outbreak early on in the pandemic. New Jersey and Connecticut followed New York’s lead in expanding the quarantine order.
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The quarantine applies to any one arriving from one of those states with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a 7-day rolling average, or a state with a 10 percent or higher positivity rate over a 7-day rolling average.
The addition of the 10 states Tuesday means 31 states are now on the list, as Minnesota was recently removed.
“One state can only do so much to protect itself from COVID,” Cuomo said in a tweet Tuesday. “The virus can and will cross state lines. There must be a national plan to get this virus under control. 5 months later, we’re still waiting.”
While New York has made significant progress in mitigating the spread of COVID-19 after dealing with an overwhelming outbreak earlier this year, many other states across the country have seen significant surges in cases and hospitalizations.
“As infection rates increase in 41 other states, our numbers continue to steadily decline, thanks to the hard work of New Yorkers and our incremental, data-driven opening,” Cuomo said in a statement.
He said New York City on Monday saw no COVID-19 fatalities.
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