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Alaska, New Mexico, Ohio, Rhode Island removed from list
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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:
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:
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:
REGION |
SATURDAY |
SUNDAY |
MONDAY |
Capital Region |
0.8% |
0.8% |
1.2% |
Central New York |
0.7% |
0.6% |
0.4% |
Finger Lakes |
0.9% |
0.7% |
0.6% |
Long Island |
0.6% |
1.2% |
0.8% |
Mid-Hudson |
0.6% |
0.9% |
0.7% |
Mohawk Valley |
0.5% |
0.5% |
1.3% |
New York City |
0.9% |
0.9% |
0.9% |
North Country |
0.2% |
0.2% |
0.4% |
Southern Tier |
0.3% |
0.4% |
0.6% |
Western New York |
1.6% |
0.8% |
1.3% |