Hawaii, South Dakota & Virgin Islands added to NYS quarantine list

Alaska, New Mexico, Ohio, Rhode Island removed from list

ICU patients drop to 120 – new low since March 15; lowest number of intubations – 60 – since mid-March

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced two additional states and the Virgin Islands meet the metrics to qualify for the travel advisory requiring individuals who have traveled to New York from those areas - all of which have significant community spread – to quarantine for 14 days. The newly added states are Hawaii and South Dakota.

The quarantine applies to any person arriving from an area with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a seven-day rolling average, or an area with a 10% or higher positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average.

"New York went from one of the worst situations in the country, to an example for the rest of the nation to follow," Cuomo said. "Our numbers continue to remain low and steady, which shows this virus will respond to an approach based on science, not politics. In order to protect this progress, we must keep up our efforts – we cannot go back to the hell we experienced a few months ago, which is why we are adding Hawaii, South Dakota and Virgin Islands to the travel advisory."

The full, updated travel advisory list is below:

1. Alabama
2. Arkansas
3. Arizona
4. California
5. Florida
6. Georgia
7. Hawaii
8. Iowa
9. Idaho
10. Illinois
11. Indiana
12. Kansas
13. Kentucky
14. Louisiana
15. Maryland
16. Minnesota
17. Missouri
18. Mississippi
19. Montana
20. North Carolina
21. North Dakota
22. Nebraska
23. Nevada
24. Oklahoma
25. Puerto Rico
26. South Carolina
27. South Dakota
28. Tennessee
29. Texas
30. Utah
31. Virginia
32. Virgin Islands
33. Wisconsin

Alaska, New Mexico, Ohio and Rhode Island have been removed from the travel advisory. Individuals in quarantine after traveling from a state that has been removed from the advisory should continue to quarantine for the full 14 days.

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

• Patient hospitalization – 540 (up 5)
• Patients newly admitted – 56
• Hospital counties – 29
• Number ICU – 120 (down 7)
• Number ICU with intubation – 60 (down 2)
• Total discharges – 73,779 (up 43)
• Deaths – 6
• Total deaths – 25,211

Of the 77,059 test results reported to New York yesterday, 667 (0.86%), were positive. Each region's percentage of positive test results reported over the past three days is as follows: