Cuomo: Individuals traveling to New York from 8 additional states will be required to quarantine for 14 days

California, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada & Tennessee meet metrics to qualify for travel advisory

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced eight additional states meet 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 states are California, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada and Tennessee. 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% or higher positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average.

The number of new cases, percentage of tests that were positive and many other helpful data points are always available at forward.ny.gov.

"As an increasing number of states around the country fight significant community spread, New York is taking action to maintain the precarious safety of its phased, data-driven reopening," Cuomo said. "We've set metrics for community spread just as we've set metrics for everything the state does to fight COVID-19, and eight more states have reached the level of spread required to qualify for New York's travel advisory, meaning we will now require individuals traveling to New York from those states to quarantine for 14 days."

The full, updated list of states on the travel advisory is below:

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Arizona
• California
• Florida
• Georgia
• Iowa
• Idaho
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• North Carolina
• Nevada
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

• Patient hospitalization – 891 (up 38)
• Patients newly admitted – 72 (up 20)
• Hospital counties – 27
• Number ICU – 217 (up 1)
• Number ICU that are intubated – 137 (up 1)
• Total discharges – 70,487 (up 52)
• Deaths – 13
• Total deaths – 24,855

Of the 52,025 tests conducted in New York yesterday, 524, or 1%, were positive. Each region's percentage of positive tests over the past three days is as follows:

The governor also confirmed 524 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 393,454 confirmed.