New York Adds 4 States To Coronavirus Quarantine List; 1 Removed

Daniel Hampton
Updated ·2 min read

NEW YORK CITY — New York has added four states to its coronavirus quarantine list requiring visitors from those states to isolate themselves for two weeks.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday said Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio and Wisconsin now have significant community spread of the coronavirus and meet the state's metrics to qualify for the advisory. Delaware was removed from the list, bringing the number of states on the advisory to 22.

The latest update comes as New York saw 1.5 percent of COVID-19 tests come back positive Monday. Five more people died, officials said.

The quarantine applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive coronavirus test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a seven-day rolling average, or a state with at least a 10 percent positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average. Cuomo on Monday said a travel enforcement operation will begin at airports to ensure travelers are adhering to the quarantine restrictions.

Cuomo said contact tracing for some new cases in New York showed a "lack of compliance." Over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, more than a third of attendees at one party were infected with the virus. State and local contact tracing efforts found that 35 percent of people who attended the party in Suffolk County became infected with COVID-19.

"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."

Below is the updated list of states on the travel advisory:

  • Alabama

  • Arkansas

  • Arizona

  • California

  • Florida

  • Georgia

  • Iowa

  • Idaho

  • Kansas

  • Louisiana

  • Minnesota

  • Mississippi

  • North Carolina

  • New Mexico

  • Nevada

  • Ohio

  • Oklahoma

  • South Carolina

  • Tennessee

  • Texas

  • Utah

  • Wisconsin

This article originally appeared on the Long Island Patch