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MCC Daily Tribune

Governors' Tri-State Travel Advisory Now in Effect

Yesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo, together with the governors from Connecticut and New Jersey, issued the following media release announcing "individuals traveling from states with significant community spread of COVID-19 will be required to quarantine for 14 days when visiting New York, New Jersey and Connecticut."

GOVERNOR CUOMO, GOVERNOR MURPHY AND GOVERNOR LAMONT ANNOUNCE JOINT INCOMING TRAVEL ADVISORY THAT ALL INDIVIDUALS TRAVELING FROM STATES WITH SIGNIFICANT COMMUNITY SPREAD OF COVID-19 QUARANTINE FOR 14 DAYS

Tri-State Advisory Will Use Uniform Parameters and Messaging Across the Three States

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont today announced a joint incoming travel advisory that all individuals traveling from states with significant community spread of COVID-19 quarantine for a 14-day period from the time of last contact within the identified state.

This quarantine - effective midnight Wednesday, June 24 - applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a 7-day rolling average or a state with a 10% or higher positivity rate over a 7-day rolling average.

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut will continually update and publish on their respective websites a list of states to which the new advisory applies. This information will be updated regularly.

The tri-state measure will use uniform parameters and messaging on highways, airports, websites and social media across the three states. The three states will also ask hotels to communicate the 14-day quarantine to guests who have traveled from one of the impacted states.

"In New York we went from the highest number of cases to some of the lowest rates in the country - no one else had to bend the curve as much as we did and now we have to make sure that the rate continues to drop in our entire region," Governor Cuomo said. "We've been working with our neighbors in New Jersey and Connecticut throughout this entire pandemic, and we're announcing a joint travel advisory that says people coming in from states with a high infection rate must quarantine for 14 days. We've worked very hard to get the viral transmission rate down and we don't want to see it go up again because people are traveling into the state and bringing it with them."

More information and the full release are available online.

 

Rosanna Yule
Government and Community Relations
06/25/2020