Delaware, Kansas, Oklahoma added to New York's quarantine order

[TexasTowelie]

ALBANY – Travelers from Delaware, Kansas and Oklahoma must self-isolate for 14 days upon arriving in New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Tuesday.

The announcement now makes visitors from 19 states subject to New York's quarantine order, which Cuomo enacted late last month to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus in the Empire State as cases rise elsewhere across the country. The list is re-evaluated daily, and states are added when their positive test rate clocks in higher than 10 per 100,000 residents or 10 percent of the population, both on a seven-day rolling average.

Delaware is the first state that has been added to the list from the northeast. It is also the first state subject to the advisory that New York has worked with on reopening plans; Delaware is a member of the seven-state northeast coalition formed in April that meets once weekly to discuss economic revival strategies.

States such as Florida and Texas, some of the first states added to the travel advisory, have documented record coronavirus numbers over the past several weeks, with thousands of new patients daily. Meanwhile, numbers have continued to stay roughly the same in New York, with total hospitalizations still falling below 1,000 and fewer than 200 people staying in the ICU.

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(Albany Times Union)