New York Governor Andrew Cuomo joined KNX 1070 News Wednesday afternoon to talk about the recent travel advisory announcement of a 14-day quarantine for travelers traveling from other states amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier today Cuomo announced his state, as well as New Jersey and Connecticut, are imposing a 14-day quarantine on travelers from some states with high coronavirus infection rates. The travel advisory goes into effect Wednesday at midnight. When he made the announcement, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Utah and Texas were on the mandatory quarantine list.
When asked if California is being monitored as a state, Cuomo told co-anchors Mike Simpson and Karen Adams that they were looking at all the states and there are about 27 states on the increase now.
"Our numbers went up very fast and very high, very early," Cuomo said adding now the state has the lowest transmission rate in the country.
He said now the problem is people coming from other states with a high transmission rate.
You are going into mandatory quarantine and getting a significant fine if you break the 14-day quarantine, according to Cuomo.
Cuomo gave a distinction between New York and California saying New York has started reopening about a month ago with New York City beginning to reopen about 10 days ago. He said there is "more controlled phasing" than some California counties.
"Our reopening is more moderated than most of your reopenings and you have a variance. We have one set of rules statewide but it's much more of a phased reopening," Cuomo said.