NEW YORK – The New York quarantine list, which had recently restricted travel from 41 US access points, will no longer exist. Instead, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that anyone entering the state can end their mandatory quarantine before the 14-day period if they test negative for the coronavirus.
As outlined by the governor, there are two classifications of travelers entering New York: residents who traveled out of state for less than 24 hours, and everyone else.
NEW: @NYGovCuomo announces NYS is shifting from a quarantine list to a testing policy.
➡️ Get a negative test within 3 days BEFORE arriving in NYS.
➡️ Once you arrive in NYS, wait 3 days and then take a test on the 4th day (or after).
✅ If both are negative, no quarantine.
– Jack Stars (@JRSterne) October 31, 2020
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Both types of travelers entering New York must now be quarantined for at least a 3-day period before taking a coronavirus test. As long as the test is negative, says the governor, the quarantine period may end.
New Yorkers returning from a trip of less than 24 hours out of state will not need to take a test before returning, but must take a test after re-entry. Everyone else, in the general categorization, must take a test before traveling to New York, Cuomo said. Within three days of their trip to the state, individuals must take a test before traveling by plane or other means of travel.
Anyone who chooses not to take a test must complete a 14-day quarantine period.
“There will be no quarantine list, there will be no metrics,” Cuomo said at his daily press conference on Saturday.
The quarantine list required travelers to the tri-state area from US access points to self-isolate for 14 days before freely moving through the region. It also required tri-state area residents to self-isolate after returning home from an identified access point.
The most recent trial mandate for people entering the state will not apply to the neighbors of New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. While acknowledging the increasing positivity of the virus in nearby statesCuomo said there are too many commutes across its borders to regulate.
“It would disrupt everything if I quarantined those states,” he added.
The newborn baby recovered from coronavirus after weeks in the hospital.
Cuomo continued to urge New Yorkers, to the extent possible, to avoid nonessential travel between nearby states as long as they meet the quarantine threshold. Governors Phil Murphy and Ned Lamont have sent similar appeals to the people of New Jersey and Connecticut in recent weeks.
The state’s policy change comes as New York teetered on the brink of meeting its own standards for the three-state quarantine list, reporting 9.99 new cases per 100,000 people over a rolling seven-day period beginning Thursday. . The threshold is 10, which the neighboring states of Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey have already exceeded.
That metric is driven by high numbers in the Southern Tier (25.07 per 100,000) and Mid-Hudson (12.74 per 100,000) regions. Long Island’s new case rate per 100,000 residents (9.39) over the past week is lower than the state average and New York City’s is even lower (9.12), even when its mayor warned it was concerned. due to the recent growth of the positivity rate in the city.
The figures had slightly improved on Friday compared to Thursday, including the seven-day moving average positivity (1.87 percent vs. 1.92 percent), which Mayor Bill de Blasio describes as the “most objective” measure of position in the COVID war. And while the mayor breathed a sigh of relief after Thursday’s jump, the city is still not in a position to relax.
“So a little bit of stabilization, a little bit of better news today, but we have a long way to go,” de Blasio said.
Across the state, the numbers are rising across the board, even as New York continues having the third lowest infection rate in the nation, according to data from Johns Hopkins. Governor Andrew Cuomo reported nearly 2,500 new cases Thursday, the highest daily total since mid-May, and another 2,255 on Friday. The state also saw more than 1,000 total hospitalizations on Friday for the eighth day in a row, which it has not done since it first dropped that marker from 1,000 in late June.
All hospitals in the state are supposed to keep at least a third of their regular beds and a third of their ICU beds open to handle any potential resurgence. As of Friday, the state was short on the regular bed target (25 percent). Long Island was only 21 percent open, while New York City only had 18 percent available. Both areas were also low in ICU beds. Still, hospitals say they are “very confident” in their ability to handle a resurgence, armed with the lessons learned during the spring.
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