Cuomo Adds Hawaii, South Dakota and U.S. Virgin Islands To Travel Advisory List

Announces Hawaii, South Dakota and Virgin Islands Meet Metrics to Qualify for Travel Advisory; Alaska, New Mexico, Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington Removed from List

ICU Patients Drop to 120 — New Low Since March 15

Lowest Number of Intubations - 60 - Since Mid-March

0.86 Percent of Yesterday's COVID-19 Tests were Positive

6 COVID-19 Deaths in New York State Yesterday

Confirms 667 Additional Coronavirus Cases in New York State - Bringing Statewide Total to 422,003; New Cases in 43 Counties 


Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that two additional states and the Virgin Islands meet the metrics to qualify for the travel advisory requiring individuals who have traveled to New York from those areas, all of which have significant community spread, to quarantine for 14 days. The newly-added states are Hawaii and South Dakota. Alaska, New Mexico, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington have been removed. The quarantine applies to any person arriving from an area with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a 7-day rolling average or an area with a 10 percent or higher positivity rate over a 7-day rolling average.

"New York went from one of the worst situations in the country, to an example for the rest of the nation to follow," Governor Cuomo said. "Our numbers continue to remain low and steady, which shows this virus will respond to an approach based on science, not politics. In order to protect this progress, we must keep up our efforts - we cannot go back to the hell we experienced a few months ago, which is why we are adding Hawaii, South Dakota and Virgin Islands to the travel advisory."

The full, updated travel advisory list is below:

  • Alabama
  • Arkansas
  • Arizona
  • California
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Hawaii
  • Iowa
  • Idaho
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Maryland
  • Minnesota
  • Missouri
  • Mississippi
  • Montana
  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • Oklahoma
  • Puerto Rico
  • South Carolina
  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Texas
  • Utah
  • Virginia
  • Virgin Islands
  • Wisconsin
 

Alaska, New Mexico, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington have been removed from the travel advisory. Individuals in quarantine after traveling from a state that has been removed from the advisory should continue to quarantine for the full 14 days.

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

  • Patient Hospitalization - 540 (+5)
  • Patients Newly Admitted - 56
  • Hospital Counties - 29
  • Number ICU - 120 (-7)
  • Number ICU with Intubation - 60 (-2)
  • Total Discharges - 73,779 (+43)
  • Deaths - 6
  • Total Deaths - 25,211

Of the 77,059 test results reported to New York State yesterday, 667, or 0.86 percent, were positive. Each region's percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:

REGION

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

MONDAY

Capital Region

0.8%

0.8%

1.2%

Central New York

0.7%

0.6%

0.4%

Finger Lakes

0.9%

0.7%

0.6%

Long Island

0.6%

1.2%

0.8%

Mid-Hudson

0.6%

0.9%

0.7%

Mohawk Valley

0.5%

0.5%

1.3%

New York City

0.9%

0.9%

0.9%

North Country

0.2%

0.2%

0.4%

Southern Tier

0.3%

0.4%

0.6%

Western New York

1.6%

0.8%

1.3%

The Governor also confirmed 667 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 422,003 confirmed cases in New York State. Of the 422,003 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County

Total Positive

New Positive

Albany

2,614

14

Allegany

80

0

Broome

1,143

12

Cattaraugus

168

2

Cayuga

157

5

Chautauqua

258

1

Chemung

176

4

Chenango

218

2

Clinton

129

1

Columbia

546

5

Cortland

95

0

Delaware

106

1

Dutchess

4,619

6

Erie

8,987

69

Essex

56

1

Franklin

54

0

Fulton

297

0

Genesee

279

2

Greene

294

1

Hamilton

8

0

Herkimer

277

3

Jefferson

142

0

Lewis

45

4

Livingston

176

0

Madison

413

1

Monroe

5,002

26

Montgomery

177

0

Nassau

43,724

34

Niagara

1,512

12

NYC

228,343

274

Oneida

2,175

25

Onondaga

3,602

17

Ontario

362

1

Orange

11,180

12

Orleans

298

0

Oswego

255

2

Otsego

118

2

Putnam

1,449

0

Rensselaer

770

4

Rockland

13,954

5

Saratoga

767

7

Schenectady

1,075

15

Schoharie

69

0

Schuyler

22

0

Seneca

91

1

St. Lawrence

263

0

Steuben

300

2

Suffolk

43,893

49

Sullivan

1,490

1

Tioga

194

1

Tompkins

234

0

Ulster

2,076

4

Warren

312

0

Washington

260

0

Wayne

252

0

Westchester

36,272

39

Wyoming

118

0

Yates

57

0

Yesterday, there were 6 deaths due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,211. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:

Deaths by County of Residence

County

New Deaths

Albany

1

Bronx

1

Erie

1

Kings

1

Monroe

1

Wayne

1

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