Two States Added to NY COVID-19 Travel Advisory List: Only OK to Travel to 7 States

Only seven states are not on the travel advisory list, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut, although all three met the matrix to be added to the travel advisory list. However, the New York says given the interconnected nature of the region and mode of transport between us, a quarantine on these states is not practically viable. That said, New York State highly discourages, to the extent practical, non-essential travel to and from these states, while they meet the travel advisory criteria.

Arizona and Maryland were added Tuesday to New York’s COVID-19 travel advisory list. No areas have been removed.The advisory requires individuals who have traveled to New York from areas with significant community spread to quarantine for 14 days. 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.

“We are now in a situation where 43 states meet the criteria for our travel advisory. This is really a bizarre outcome, considering New York once had the highest infection rate,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “There is no practical way to quarantine New York from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut. There are just too many interchanges, interconnections, and people who live in one place and work in the other. It would have a disastrous effect on the economy, and remember while we’re fighting this public health pandemic we’re also fighting to open up the economy.”

The full, updated travel advisory list is available below: