Coronavirus: New State Added To NY Quarantine Travel Advisory

Daniel Hampton
·2 min read

NEW YORK, NY — New Yorkers who want to travel to Rhode Island will have to quarantine for two weeks when they come back after Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday the state has been added to its coronavirus travel advisory.

Rhode Island now meets the state's metrics to qualify for the advisory, Cuomo said. Delaware and Washington, D.C. were removed from the list.

The quarantine advisory applies to travelers coming from 34 states and Puerto Rico, which all have what New York officials call significant community spread. To be eligible for the list, a state or territory must have a positive test rate of at least 10 per 100,000 residents over a weeklong rolling average, or at least a 10 percent positivity rate over that time frame.

"Our progress in New York is even better than we expected, thanks to the hard work of New Yorkers. Our numbers continue to decline steadily, and for the third straight day in a row, there were no reported deaths in New York City," Cuomo said in a news release. "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 news comes as three New Yorkers died of the COVID-19 disease Monday. The state saw 139 people admitted into intensive care units and 69 people had to be intubated. Of the nearly 71,000 test results reported Monday, about 1 percent were positive.

Here is the full, updated travel advisory list:

  • Alaska

  • Alabama

  • Arkansas

  • Arizona

  • California

  • Florida

  • Georgia

  • Iowa

  • Idaho

  • Illinois

  • Indiana

  • Kansas

  • Kentucky

  • Louisiana

  • Maryland

  • Minnesota

  • Missouri

  • Mississippi

  • Montana

  • North Carolina

  • North Dakota

  • Nebraska

  • New Mexico

  • Nevada

  • Ohio

  • Oklahoma

  • Puerto Rico

  • Rhode Island

  • South Carolina

  • Tennessee

  • Texas

  • Utah

  • Virginia

  • Washington

  • Wisconsin

This article originally appeared on the Long Island Patch