Health & Fitness
Arizonans Now Required To Quarantine If Visiting Some States
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut now requires travelers from states with high rates of the new coronavirus to quarantine for 14 days.
ARIZONA — Travelers from Arizona and other states with high rates of infection of the new coronavirus are now required to quarantine for 14 days when visiting New York, Connecticut or New Jersey, a cohort of the states' governors announced Wednesday.
The quarantine mandate applies to travelers from any state with an infection rate of 10 people per 100,000, or 10 percent of the total population testing positive, over a 7-day rolling average, New York Governor Cuomo said in a news conference Wednesday.
The states currently exceeding the allowable infection rate are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Utah and Texas. That list is subject to change as rates of infection fluctuate across the country.
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"We worked really hard to get the viral transmission rate down, and we don't want to see it go up," Cuomo said.
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