Washington: US states of Ohio, Michigan and Virginia have been added to New York State’s COVID-19 travel advisory, and no areas have been removed from the list, announced Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday.
The advisory requires individuals who have traveled to New York from areas with significant community spread to quarantine for 14 days. The quarantine applies to any person arriving from an area with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a 7-day rolling average or an area with a 10 percent or higher positivity rate over a 7-day rolling average.
The travel advisory list still includes Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Wyoming, according to the website of the state government.
Meanwhile, according to the governor’s Twitter account, in the “Red Zone” focus areas of the state where the pandemic has been severe, the positivity rate for COVID-19 test results reported on Monday was 4.13 percent, up from the 3.70 percent the day before.
The “Red Zone” focus areas are home to 2.8 percent of state’s population, yet had 12.3 percent of all positive cases reported on Monday in New York State, said the governor.
“Our numbers overall continue to remain steady, despite the micro-clusters that have popped up in certain pockets of the state,” he said.
“Our strategy is to continue to identify these clusters if and when they pop up, get even more refined in our targeting and attack them as needed,” he added.
According to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, the US coronavirus death toll reached 215,549 as of Tuesday afternoon, and the number of confirmed cases was more than 7.83 million. New York remains one of the worst-hit states in the country. (AGENCIES)
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