COLUMBUS, Ohio – Gov. Mike DeWine unveiled a new U.S. map Tuesday, showing the states from which people arriving in Ohio are asked to issue even 14 quarantines.
The six states all have positive rates for coronavirus testing above 15 percent, which probably means that there is a high level of COVID-19 infections among residents in the general population.
Three states in the latest coronavirus travel advice are in the American West and three in the South: Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
DeWine said the following are the levels of positivity in each state:
-In Idaho it is 17%;
-In Nevada, 19%;
-In Arizona, 18%;
-In Mississippi, 26%;
-In Alabama, 20%;
-And in Florida it’s 18%.
In Ohio, the seven-day average of positivity through Sunday was 5.1%, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
“Some of these states are more than 5 times what our positivity is,” DeWine said.
The coronavirus can take 14 days to incubate before symptoms begin, which is why the state set the recommended self-quarantine time of two weeks.
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