Governor adds four states to travel advisory; Delaware removed from list

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that four additional states meet the metrics to qualify for the travel advisory requiring individuals who have traveled to New York from those states, all of which have significant community spread, to quarantine for 14 days. The newly-added states are Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio and Wisconsin. Delaware has been removed.

The quarantine 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 percent or higher positivity rate over a 7-day rolling average.

Yesterday, Governor Cuomo announced a travel enforcement operation will commence today at airports across the state to help ensure travelers are following the state’s quarantine restrictions and to help contain the rates of COVID-19 transmission in New York State.

The number of new cases, percentage of tests that were positive and many other helpful data points are always available at forward.ny.gov.

“New Yorkers showed incredible courage and resiliency throughout this pandemic, and nowhere is their work more evident than in the numbers we release every day, including in New York City, once a global hotspot,” Governor Cuomo said in his briefing today.

He added, “However, the success of our efforts depends on citizens’ willingness to comply with state guidance, socially distance, wear masks and wash their hands, and rising cases around the country continue to threaten our progress, which is why four new states have been added to New York’s travel advisory.” 

“It’s also clear based on contact tracing that many of the new cases in New York are a result of a lack of compliance during the July 4 weekend and illustrate how quickly the virus spreads, with one party, for example, infecting more than a third of attendees,” Governor Cuomo continued. “I cannot be more clear: Look at what’s happening in the rest of the country — if we are not smart, if we don’t wear masks and socially distance, cases will spike. No one wants to go back to the hell we experienced three months ago, so please stay vigilant.”

State and local contact tracing efforts found that 35 percent of people who attended a Fourth of July weekend party in Suffolk County – or more than one-third of the entire party – became infected with COVID-19, demonstrating how quickly the virus can spread.

The full, updated list of states on the travel advisory is below:  

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Arizona
• California
• Florida
• Georgia
• Iowa
• Idaho
• Kansas
• Louisiana
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• North Carolina
• New Mexico
• Nevada
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Wisconsin

Today’s data is summarized briefly below:

• Patient Hospitalization – 820 (+28)
• Patients Newly Admitted – 71 (+11)
• Hospital Counties – 31
• Number ICU – 167 (-8)
• Number ICU with Intubation – 101 (-2)
• Total Discharges – 71,692 (+49)
• Deaths – 5
• Total Deaths – 24,994

Of the 60,045 tests conducted in New York State yesterday, 912, or 1.5 percent, were positive. Each region’s percentage of positive tests over the last three days is as follows:

REGION	SATURDAY	SUNDAY	MONDAY
Capital Region	2.0%	0.9%	1.7%
Central New York	1.1%	1.0%	1.3%
Finger Lakes	0.8%	1.0%	1.4%
Long Island	0.9%	1.5%	2.0%
Mid-Hudson	0.9%	0.8%	1.6%
Mohawk Valley	0.8%	0.8%	1.6%
New York City	1.3%	1.1%	1.4%
North Country	0.4%	0.2%	0.5%
Southern Tier	0.6%	0.9%	0.8%
Western New York	1.0%	1.1%	2.0%

The Governor also confirmed 912 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 403,175 confirmed cases in New York State. Of the 403,175 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	2,247	22
Allegany	68	2
Broome	841	14
Cattaraugus	139	1
Cayuga	127	1
Chautauqua	180	9
Chemung	149	1
Chenango	171	2
Clinton	110	1
Columbia	489	2
Cortland	59	0
Delaware	92	0
Dutchess	4,318	38
Erie	7,833	67
Essex	51	0
Franklin	36	0
Fulton	266	1
Genesee	252	2
Greene	267	1
Hamilton	6	0
Herkimer	195	2
Jefferson	100	1
Lewis	32	1
Livingston	151	4
Madison	376	1
Monroe	4,247	47
Montgomery	141	8
Nassau	42,423	69
Niagara	1,351	9
NYC	219,616	315
Oneida	1,847	17
Onondaga	3,179	37
Ontario	307	5
Orange	10,850	9
Orleans	288	1
Oswego	225	3
Otsego	90	1
Putnam	1,376	11
Rensselaer	625	8
Rockland	13,733	14
Saratoga	616	6
Schenectady	883	15
Schoharie	62	0
Schuyler	15	0
Seneca	74	0
St. Lawrence	233	2
Steuben	278	2
Suffolk	42,214	102
Sullivan	1,466	1
Tioga	161	0
Tompkins	186	0
Ulster	1,872	10
Warren	280	0
Washington	250	1
Wayne	214	5
Westchester	35,366	39
Wyoming	103	1
Yates	49	1

Yesterday, there were five deaths due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 24,994. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:  

Deaths by County of Residence
County	New Deaths
Broome	2
Erie	1
Queens	1
St. Lawrence	1