Resurgence of COVID cases prompts NY, CT and NJ to require travelers from hot states to quarantine for 14 days…..and how this applies to trucking
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut issued a joint travel advisory June 24th that requires people arriving from states with high coronavirus rates to quarantine for 14 days.
The Governors of these states held a joint press-conference late Wednesday to announce the travel restrictions amid a resurgence of the coronavirus. Based on the advisory, anyone travelling from one of the hot states will be required to self-quarantine upon entering these states. While many of the states are relying on the honor system to self quarantine, New York seems to take a hard stance on the travel advisory saying anyone who violates the quarantine will have to do a mandatory and will be fined.
“There were no states that were handed a worse hand, if you will, when this first started,” Cuomo said during the presser. “No one else had to accomplish as much as we had to accomplish in such a short period of time. No one else had to bend the curve as much as we had to bend the curve.”
As of Wednesday at midnight, the travel advisory applies to Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Texas, where states have crossed over the 10 positive cases for 100,000 residents over a 7 day rolling period or a state with a 10% or higher positive rate over a 7-day rolling average.
To get the looming question out of the way, this ONLY applies to truckers if they are returning home to NY, NJ or CT. Truckers are classified as essential workers and are exempt from the required quarantine as long as they are traveling through, or just dropping a load and then picking a load. Based on guidelines, if a trucker resides in NY, CT or NJ and is returning to take time off at home while traveling from a “hot-state” they will be required to quarantine for 14 days or until they go back out on the road.
