Governor adds Rhode Island to Travel Advisory List; Delaware and Washington, D.C. are removed

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that an additional state meets 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 state is Rhode Island. Delaware and Washington, D.C. have been removed.

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.

“Our progress in New York is even better than we expected, thanks to the hard work of New Yorkers. Our numbers continue to decline steadily, and for the third straight day in a row, there were no reported deaths in New York City,” Governor Cuomo said. “But we must protect that progress, which is why today we are adding another state to our travel advisory. We cannot go back to the hell we experienced just a few months ago – and surging infection rates across the country threaten to bring us back there – so we must all remain vigilant.”

 The full, updated travel advisory list is below:

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

Delaware and Washington, D.C. have been removed from the travel advisory. Individuals in quarantine after traveling from a state that has been removed from the advisory should continue to quarantine for the full 14 days.

Today’s data is summarized briefly below:

• Patient Hospitalization – 568 (+32)
• Patients Newly Admitted – 85
• Hospital Counties – 30
• Number ICU – 139 (+3)
• Number ICU with Intubation – 69 (+7)
• Total Discharges – 73,326 (+47)
• Deaths – 3
• Total Deaths – 25,175

 Of the 70,993 test results reported to New York State yesterday, 746, or 1.05 percent, were positive. Each region’s percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:

 

REGION	SATURDAY	SUNDAY	MONDAY
Capital Region	1.0%	0.9%	1.1%
Central New York	0.8%	0.7%	0.7%
Finger Lakes	0.7%	0.8%	1.1%
Long Island	1.0%	1.3%	1.3%
Mid-Hudson	0.8%	0.9%	1.0%
Mohawk Valley	0.7%	1.0%	1.7%
New York City	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%
North Country	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%
Southern Tier	0.5%	0.9%	0.9%
Western New York	0.7%	2.2%	1.1%

 

The Governor also confirmed 746 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 417,589 confirmed cases in New York State. Of the 417,589 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

 

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	2,543	12
Allegany	75	0
Broome	1,078	14
Cattaraugus	164	2
Cayuga	150	2
Chautauqua	241	7
Chemung	163	0
Chenango	212	1
Clinton	127	0
Columbia	529	6
Cortland	93	1
Delaware	104	0
Dutchess	4,557	14
Erie	8,667	41
Essex	55	0
Franklin	50	0
Fulton	285	0
Genesee	273	0
Greene	289	0
Hamilton	7	0
Herkimer	262	16
Jefferson	139	5
Lewis	37	2
Livingston	170	3
Madison	405	4
Monroe	4,821	31
Montgomery	160	0
Nassau	43,436	56
Niagara	1,458	9
NYC	226,280	316
Oneida	2,103	13
Onondaga	3,515	25
Ontario	352	1
Orange	11,105	9
Orleans	295	0
Oswego	249	1
Otsego	115	1
Putnam	1,437	4
Rensselaer	748	8
Rockland	13,893	8
Saratoga	739	6
Schenectady	1,041	4
Schoharie	68	0
Schuyler	22	0
Seneca	86	0
St. Lawrence	262	0
Steuben	294	2
Suffolk	43,468	73
Sullivan	1,484	1
Tioga	191	1
Tompkins	230	0
Ulster	2,039	8
Warren	302	2
Washington	255	0
Wayne	248	1
Westchester	36,049	35
Wyoming	113	0
Yates	56	1

 

Yesterday, there were 3 deaths due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,175. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:

 

Deaths by County of Residence
County	New Deaths
Erie	1
Herkimer	1
Monroe	1