New York officials have stopped 353 cars at entrances to the Big Apple to warn travelers about the mandatory two-week career rule.
The stops were made Wednesday through Friday at bridges and tunnels, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office, which also said 1,100 masks were distributed.
Cars were stopped at random and residents were asked if they had spent more than 24 hours in the previous 14 days in any state on New York’s restricted list.
Anyone who answered yes had to fill out a health form for travelers.
The city says the stops are “rapid and educational.”
Travelers who violated the quarantine rule could face up to $ 10,000 in fines. There are currently 35 states plus Puerto Rico on the list.
The crash came when officials last week said one in five new cases of COVID-19 in the city was from an outsider.
The number of new cases in New York remains low, with 0.93 percent of 75,000 tests done this Friday returning positive. There were five deaths from coronavirus on Friday, according to Goai Andrew Cuomo’s office.
In France, where cases are slowly starting to climb, an increasing number of cities are requiring masked wear in pubs.
The glamorous city of French Riviera, Saint-Tropez, obliges the face covering from Saturday. And Paris is expected to expand its mask size to full parts of the city on Monday.
There were more than 2,000 new infections in France on Friday, the largest one-day increase since May.
Meanwhile, the outbreak of coronavirus continues to affect the cruise ship industry, with many workers still on board for months after the US banned such shipping in March.
Nearly 13,000 workers are still sitting on 57 ships that are ‘anchored, anchored or en route near a U.S. port, or with the potential to enter a U.S. port,’ ‘Brittany Panetta, a lieutenant commander and spokeswoman of the U.S. Coast Guard, USA TODAY reported.
The Coast Guard estimated that 209 Americans were on 37 of the ships. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it counted 53 U.S. crew members on 22 cruise ships in U.S. waters, the report said.
Some of those on board might work, as opposed to getting stuck.
The CDC last month extended its ban on sailing American cruise ships through September.
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