Governor Cuomo Announces Three States Added to Travel Advisory

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."

The full, updated travel advisory list is below:

• Alaska
• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Colorado
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Guam
• Iowa
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• Mississippi
• Montana
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Nebraska
• New Mexico
• Nevada
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Puerto Rico
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Virginia
• Wisconsin
• West Virginia
• Wyoming

Within the "Red Zone" focus areas, 4,138 test results were reported yesterday, yielding 171 positives or a 4.13 percent positivity rate. In the remainder of the state, not counting these "Red Zone" focus areas, 94,932 test results were reported, yielding 1,222 positives or a 1.2 percent positivity rate. The state's overall positivity rate is 1.4 percent with focus areas included. The "Red Zone" focus areas are home to 2.8 percent of the state population yet had 12.3 percent of all positive test results reported to the state yesterday, and 17.6 percent of all positive case results reported to the state last week.

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

Of the 118 new hospital admissions yesterday, 49 (or 42 percent) were from several counties - Brooklyn, Queens, Rockland, Orange, and Broome - where the state is tracking recent cluster outbreak situations. New York State in June averaged 128 new admissions per day, 94 new admissions per day in July, and 69 new daily admissions in August. The recent increase in daily hospital admissions has been primarily from the cluster areas the state is closely monitoring, which have accounted for approx. 70 percent of the increase in daily hospital admissions between early September and today. New York's peak of total COVID patients in the hospital at one time was 18,825 on April 12.

Each region's percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:

Each New York City borough's percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:

Of the 476,708 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

Yesterday, there were 11 deaths due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,598. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence: