Governor Cuomo Announces Three States Added to Travel Advisory

 

Ohio, Michigan and Virginia Meet Metrics to Qualify; No Areas Are Removed

Positive Testing Rate in Hotspot Areas is 4.13 Percent; New York State Positivity Without Red Zone Focus Areas Included is 1.2 Percent

Cluster Areas Have Accounted For Approx. 70 Percent Of Increase In Daily Hospital Admissions Between Early September And Today

11 COVID-19 Deaths in New York State Yesterday

SLA and State Police Task Force Visits 470 Establishments; Observes 3 Establishments Not in Compliance

 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that Ohio, Michigan and Virginia have been added to New York State's COVID-19 travel advisory. 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.

In "Red Zone" focus areas included as part of the Governor's Cluster Action Initiative, the positivity rate for test results reported yesterday is 4.13 percent - up from the 3.70 percent the day before. The "Red Zone" focus areas are home to 2.8 percent of state's population, yet had 12.3 percent of all positive cases reported yesterday to New York State. 

"Our numbers overall continue to remain steady, despite the micro-clusters that have popped up in certain pockets of the state. Our strategy is to continue to identify these clusters if and when they pop up, get even more refined in our targeting and attack them as needed," Governor Cuomo said. "As we go into the fall, and the numbers nationwide are going up, we must work to keep our numbers down - and that's going to take every New Yorker wearing their masks, socially distancing and being New York Tough to maintain our progress."

Yesterday, the State Liquor Authority and State Police Task Force visited 470 establishments in New York City and Long Island and observed 3 establishments that were not in compliance with state requirements. A county breakdown of yesterday's observed violations is below:

• Nassau - 3

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

• Patient Hospitalization - 923 (+45)
• Patients Newly Admitted - 118
• Hospital Counties - 41
• Number ICU - 181 (-4)
• Number ICU with Intubation - 90 (+4)
• Total Discharges - 77,755 (+64)
• Deaths - 11
• Total Deaths - 25,598