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Cuomo Mandates All Travelers To NYC Get Tested For COVID-19…
Quote:Most people who visit New York will have to quarantine for three days and then prove they are negative for COVID-19 before they are “free to go about their business,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday.
The strict new mandate — which exempts New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania residents — eliminates the governor’s quarantine advisory list, which restricted travel from over 40 coronavirus hotspots across the country.
Now, travelers must show proof of a negative test taken within three days of arriving in the Empire State, and must also quarantine for three more days — and get a new COVID-19 test on the fourth.
If that’s positive, they must isolate for two weeks, the governor said at an Albany press briefing.
“Four days plus three days is seven days, and that’s basically, by all probability, the incubation period,” Cuomo said, as he announced 2,049 new cases across the state and 8 deaths reported yesterday.
“There will be no metrics. There will be one rule that applies across the country,” he added.
Anyone who refuses to be tested must quarantine for 14 days.
New Yorkers who return home within a day of leaving must take a test within four days of their arrival, Cuomo said. But if they are gone longer for 24 hours, then the new rules apply.
Those who commute to New York between bordering states are not required to be tested each trip, he noted.
Previously, there was a two-week mandatory quarantine for travelers arriving from areas deemed to have high or increasing COVID-19 cases.
Meanwhile Saturday, Cuomo said the state’s targeted shutdowns or “microcluster approach,” in virus hotspots in Brooklyn and Queens is working, based on anecdotal evidence from hospitals and heath care facilities.
“I believe we got their attention in the red zones and the increase in enforcement got their attention. They are displeased with me but the infection rate came down and I believe I did my job.”
The average percent of positive cases in the state’s microcluster zones is 3 percent.
New York’s statewide positivity rate is 1.49 percent — the third-lowest in the nation.
Maine has a .97 percent positivity, behind Vermont’s .53 percent, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Without the hotspots, the state’s positivity rate drops to 1.3 percent, he said.
“New Yorkers should be really proud of what they’re doing,” Cuomo said. “To be third in the nation is very good.”
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Why would anyone want to go to that Commie **** hole...
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11-01-2020 01:49 PM |
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RE: Cuomo Mandates All Travelers To NYC Get Tested For COVID-19…
lol it conveniently exempts all his Dem governor buddies
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11-01-2020 01:51 PM |
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RE: Cuomo Mandates All Travelers To NYC Get Tested For COVID-19…
I've been to New York. Last time I was there, I made sure not to leave anything that I might have to go back and get.
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11-01-2020 01:51 PM |
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RE: Cuomo Mandates All Travelers To NYC Get Tested For COVID-19…
My son lives in upstate NY. He and his wife were coming to our house for a quiet thanksgiving...just the four of us.
Now they can't because they both have to work when they get back to NY.
Thanks Cuomo. You suck.
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11-01-2020 02:04 PM |
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RE: Cuomo Mandates All Travelers To NYC Get Tested For COVID-19…
Exactly how is Cuomo going to enforce this? Roadblocks at the borders?
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11-01-2020 02:09 PM |
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RE: Cuomo Mandates All Travelers To NYC Get Tested For COVID-19…
How do you enforce this? Do they have checkpoints at the borders?
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11-01-2020 02:09 PM |
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RE: Cuomo Mandates All Travelers To NYC Get Tested For COVID-19…
(11-01-2020 02:09 PM)solohawks Wrote: How do you enforce this? Do they have checkpoints at the borders?
Damn... We were thinking and typing the same thing at the same time...LOL
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11-01-2020 02:11 PM |
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RE: Cuomo Mandates All Travelers To NYC Get Tested For COVID-19…
Think this will be enough to trip NY to Trump?!
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11-01-2020 02:55 PM |
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RE: Cuomo Mandates All Travelers To NYC Get Tested For COVID-19…
(11-01-2020 02:55 PM)bullet Wrote: Think this will be enough to trip NY to Trump?!
Likely too late to make a difference unless New Yorkers are in the habit of waiting until Election Day to vote in person. Given they are all freaked out by Covid I am guessing a huge percentage has already voted absentee.
Possible electoral repercussion is likely why Cuomo waited until today to make the announcement.
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11-01-2020 03:10 PM |
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RE: Cuomo Mandates All Travelers To NYC Get Tested For COVID-19…
I think it's funny that his state probably infected half the US, and now he wants to slap restrictions on others.
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11-01-2020 03:13 PM |
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RE: Cuomo Mandates All Travelers To NYC Get Tested For COVID-19…
I think all Americans and especially New Yorkers should mandate that Cuomo be examined for mental illness. The dude thinks he is some kind of a hero. He's a murderer.
How can a man who killed as many as 6,000 elderly NY residents be hailed by the biased media as some kind of a hero? He and the other dem Governors who ordered covid patients back to nursing homes need to be held accountable.
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11-01-2020 03:24 PM |
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RE: Cuomo Mandates All Travelers To NYC Get Tested For COVID-19…
(11-01-2020 03:13 PM)TripleA Wrote: I think it's funny that his state probably infected half the US, and now he wants to slap restrictions on others.
I call it the New York Virus, as the first infected by it had visited NY the most.
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11-01-2020 03:28 PM |
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