ALBANY – New York, New Jersey and Connecticut added travelers from California, Tennessee and six other states to its quarantine list Tuesday morning, pushing the total to 16 states representing 48% of the U.S. population.
Travelers from the affected states will now have to isolate for 14 days upon arriving in the three northeastern states, doubling the original list of eight states included in the joint travel advisory issued last week.
"We've set metrics for community spread just as we've set metrics for everything the state does to fight COVID-19, and eight more states have reached the level of spread required to qualify for New York's travel advisory," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement.
New Jersey, New York and Connecticut are all requiring travelers from states with high COVID-19 infection rates to quarantine for two weeks, unless they are passing through for a short period of time.
That includes residents who travel to one of the high-COVID states and return home.
All three states are following the same criteria: Anyone coming from a state with at least 10 positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents or a 10% positive testing rate on a seven-day rolling average is included.
Enforcement, however, varies from state to state, with New York taking a hardline approach that includes monitoring flight logs and asking travelers to fill out questionnaires on airplanes.
On Tuesday morning, the New Jersey and Connecticut health departments added these eight states to its quarantine list:
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California
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Georgia
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Iowa
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Idaho
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Louisiana
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Mississippi
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Nevada
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Tennessee
They join the original eight states included in the travel order, all of which continue to qualify: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.
The newly added states matched a USA TODAY Network New York analysis of COVID-19 data, which showed they all surpassed 10 positive cases per 100,000 residents in the past 10 days.
More: New York asking airline passengers to fill out questionnaire as part of COVID-19 quarantine
Two of those states, Louisiana and Mississippi, seemed to benefit from technical glitches or corrections that excluded them from the original list.
On June 21, Louisiana's rolling seven-day average was 9.7 positive cases per 100,000 residents.
But that calculation included zero new cases on June 19, when the Louisiana Department of Health removed more than 1,600 duplicate positives, which made the state's cumulative case total fall that day and threw off the seven-day average.
Mississippi, meanwhile, showed only 5.4 positive cases per 100,000 residents for the week that ended June 21. That number was clearly suppressed: Technical issues had prevented Mississippi state officials from updating their daily case total for the four days prior.
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Jon Campbell is a New York state government reporter for the USA TODAY Network. He can be reached at JCAMPBELL1@Gannett.com or on Twitter at @JonCampbellGAN.
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