Tri-state area to require visitors to quarantine

New York, Connecticut and New Jersey will require visitors from other states with high infection rates to quarantine for 14 days.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces the “travel advisory” at a briefing joined via video feed by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, all Democrats.

“We now have to make sure the rates continue to drop,” Cuomo says. “We also have to make sure the virus doesn’t come on a plane again.”

Customers in New York are served at outside tables on June 23, 2020. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images/AFP)

Murphy says the states’ health departments will provide details of how the rule will work.

Cuomo says visitors from states over a set infection rate will have to quarantine. As of Wednesday states over the threshold included Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Utah and Texas.

— AP

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