New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that New York City had had a COVID-19 death toll for three consecutive days. On Monday there were only 3 COVID-19 deaths across the state. Despite the progress, the governor issued a stern warning to citizens to continue taking the virus seriously.
“Our progress in New York is even greater than we expected, thanks to the hard paintings of New Yorkers,” Cuomo said in a statement. “But we will have to protect this progress, which is why we are now adding some other state in our opinion to travelers. We can’t go back to the hell we spend only a few months, and infection rates across the country threaten to bring us back to that. So we’ll have to remain all vigilant.”
The governor ordered a mandatory 14-day quarantine for others traveling to New York from other states with high rates of infections. Visitors from 35 states have recently been affected. While Delaware and Washington, D.C., were removed from the list, Rhode Island added Tuesday.
Several states, adding neighboring New Jersey, have recently noticed an accumulation in the cases. CBS New York asked Cuomo if new Jersey would go up to the quarantine list if the numbers kept increasing.
“I don’t know how you could quarantine New Jersey… They don’t fly into New York. You’d have to blockade roads, and we’re not talking about blockading,” he said. “We’re going to keep our fingers crossed and work with them to get the number down.”
In addition to the travel advisory, many other precautions remain in place to help prevent the spread of the virus. Restaurants are only allowed to offer outdoor seating and must ensure social distancing, and large gatherings are still banned.
It’s a huge turnaround from early in the pandemic, when New York was the biggest hotspot in the nation. At the peak in early April, the state was reporting nearly 800 COVID-19 deaths per day.
There were a total of at least 417,589 cases shown in New York City and more than 25,000 deaths, according to fitness data.
Of the 70993 coronavirus verification effects reported to New York State on Monday, 746, a rate of 1.05%, were positive, according to the governor’s office.
On Sunday, Cuomo said in a statement that 6 million tests have been conducted, “and the numbers are just about where we want them to be, which is all very good news and says that our plan is working.”
“However, the context is important, and there are clouds of typhoons on the horizon in the form of new instances across the country and a lack of compliance here in the state, and I urge New Yorkers to remain wise in New York and local governments for good state advice,” he said.