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Coronavirus: Visitors from 10 more states must quarantine if traveling to NY, NJ or Connecticut

NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that travelers visiting New York, New Jersey or Connecticut from Washington, Indiana, North Dakota, Virginia and a half-dozen other states will now be required to self-quarantine for 14 days.

The states join more than a dozen others that have met the criteria for a travel advisory that went into effect June 25. Under the advisory, people who travel from states deemed to have a significant spread of COVID-19 must quarantine unless they are just passing through.

In a conference call Tuesday, Cuomo said 10 more states had met that criteria, WROC reported. According to information from the New York State Department of Health, the newly added states are Alaska, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Virginia and Washington. One state, Minnesota, has been taken off the list, according to officials.

The changes raised the number of states under the travel advisory to 31, including:

  • Alaska
  • Alabama
  • Arkansas
  • Arizona
  • California
  • Delaware
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Iowa
  • Idaho
  • Indiana
  • Kansas
  • Louisiana
  • Maryland
  • Missouri
  • Mississippi
  • Montana
  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • Nebraska
  • New Mexico
  • Nevada
  • Ohio
  • Oklahoma
  • South Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Texas
  • Utah
  • Virginia
  • Washington
  • Wisconsin

Officials said last month that the travel advisory requiring quarantine would apply to travelers from states that have, on a seven-day rolling average, more than 10 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people or 10% or more of their total populations testing positive for the virus.

As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 14.7 million COVID-19 cases have been reported worldwide and more than 611,000 people have died of the viral infection, according to numbers compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. has been the hardest hit by the virus, with more than 3.8 million cases and over 141,000 deaths.