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TRI-STATE GOVERNORS, NY, NJ, CT, ANNOUNCE QUARANTINE FOR OUT-OF-STATE VISITORS
By Ken Dixon
Wednesday June 24, 2020

The governors of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut on Wednesday announced mandatory quarantines for out-of-state visitors that will likely hinder their summer tourist seasons, but keep people from regions with rising coronavirus infections from spreading COVID-19 here.

As the tri-state region recovers from the pandemic, while dozens of other states experience record increases in COVID-19 infections, Gov. Ned Lamont, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy in recent days have discussed ways to protect their residents.

“We’ve reluctantly decided this is the thing we have to do,” Lamont said during a pre-noon video conference with Cuomo and Murphy. “We’ve seen real community spread.”

Travelers from states with infection levels of 10 percent per 100,000 population on a weekly average would be required to quarantine for 14 days upon entering New York, New Jersey or Connecticut. Cuomo said that currently, visitors from Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Utah and Texas would have to submit to the quarantine orders.

The governors have also discussed the possibility of allowing visitors who do not wish to quarantine for two weeks, to present proof of recent negative tests for the virus upon their arrival here.

It was unclear when Lamont mentioned the quarantine Monday how it would be enforced, and who, exactly, would be subject to the stay-in-place orders.

While some states including Arkansas, Florida and Oklahoma created mandatory 14-day quarantines for visitors from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut when this region was the epicenter of the nation’s COVID-19 outbreak, now, as it subsides, the northeast states will likely create their own orders.

Massachusetts has a similar quarantine in effect and Rhode Island requires 14-day quarantines for people from states with stay-at-home orders.

Meanwhile, the European Union is planning on prohibiting visitors from the United States because of the nation’s soaring infection and fatality rates.

https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Tri-state-governors-expected-to-announce-15362863.php