30June 2020
LOS ANGELES, CA– New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday imposed a 14-day quarantine on all travelers from California, reacting to the current spike in brand-new COVID-19 cases and other coronavirus metrics in the Golden State.
New York and a handful of other states have actually been enforcing quarantine orders on states with surging COVID-19 cases in an effort to secure their homeowners. This is the first time California has been contributed to the list of states whose travelers are required to be under quarantine; New Jersey and Connecticut also have actually imposed quarantines on travelers from those states.
Los Angeles alone, the epicenter of the state's break out, saw more new cases of coronavirus Monday than all but three states. Health officials in the Inland Empire and rural parts of the state have reported ICU beds at capacity as the break out proliferates. Gov. Gavin Newsom bought bars in seven counties closed again over the weekend to stem the tide of the break out. And health officials in San Francisco stopped the planned reopening of bars, museums and zoos on Friday due a rise of brand-new cases in the Bay Area.
“As an increasing number of states around the nation battle substantial neighborhood spread, New York is acting to keep the precarious security of its phased, data-driven resuming,” Cuomo stated. “We've set metrics for community spread just as we've set metrics for whatever the state does to fight COVID-19, and 8 more states have actually reached the level of spread needed to get approved for New York's travel advisory, meaning we will now need people traveling to New York from those states to quarantine for 14 days.”
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Cuomo included eight states Tuesday to New York's quarantine list, which was initially announced on June 24. There are now 16 states on the list.
The quarantine applies to “anybody showing up from a state with a positive test rate greater than 10 per 100,000 residents over a seven-day rolling average or a state with a 10 percent or higher positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average.”
The states added Tuesday were California, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada and Tennessee. They join Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.
Visitors from states on the list are asked to self-quarantine once they show up in New York. Cuomo's office said noncompliance with the quarantine order might be considered an infraction of the state's public health law and subject to a civil penalty of up to $10,000.
City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin added to this report.