CLEVELAND, Ohio – New York, New Jersey and Connecticut will require Ohio travelers to be quarantined upon arrival, as a result of the recent increase in coronavirus cases in Buckeye State.
Visitors from all three Ohio states and 21 other states with recent increases in cases will need to be quarantined for 14 days after arrival. New Jersey and Connecticut require quarantine, while New York will impose a fine and possible mandatory quarantine on anyone who circumvents the new rules.
“New York’s success in fighting the COVID-19 virus is under two threats: non-compliance and the virus that reaches New York from other states with increasing infection rates,” said the New York governor. Andrew Cuomo in a statement. “We have already implemented a quarantine order for travelers coming from states with the highest infection rates, but we are experiencing noncompliance with the order that can lead to outbreaks and threaten the tremendous progress we have already made.”
New York visitors must complete a traveler’s health form at the airport or online if arriving by road. Cuomo’s office said those who leave without completing the form face a $ 2,000 fine and could be brought to a hearing and ordered to complete the mandatory quarantine.
All three states formed the list to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. In April, New York was the epicenter of the disease. After weeks of declining cases, the state has seen a rebound.
Travelers from states with a positive test rate of 10 per 100,000 residents on an average of seven days or a positivity rate of 10% or more on an average of seven days are subject to quarantine.
Ohio’s addition to the list comes after an increase in cases in the past three weeks, with a 21-day average of more than 1,000. On Friday, the state recorded a record 1,525 cases.
The complete list of states is as follows:
Alabama
Arkansas
Arizona
California
Florida
Georgia
Iowa
Idaho
Kansas
Louisiana
Minnesota
Mississippi
· North Carolina
· New Mexico
· Nevada
Ohio
Oklahoma
· South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Wisconsin
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