Tag: New York

Upstate New York county executives want 14-day quarantine measures for New York City travelers

Kerry Picket · March 30, 2020 1:51 pm

N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order Monday banning state employees from using taxpayer funds to travel to North Carolina on nonessential work.

Cuomo defends needing 30,000 ventilators for the impending ‘apex’ of the outbreak

Dominick Mastrangelo · March 29, 2020 10:59 pm

that state lawmakers have closed a budget deal to fund prekindergarten in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio is ready to turn to the next items on his sweeping liberal agenda: massively expanding affordable housing, increasing wages for the working class and overhauling the city's recovery from Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

De Blasio threatens to permanently close places of worship that resist shutdown order

John Gage · March 29, 2020 10:44 pm

Facing legal threat from New York, Rhode Island expands quarantine rule to cover travelers from all other states

Madison Dibble · March 29, 2020 6:48 pm

‘Looking a lot more like New York’: Maryland governor warns of massive coronavirus outbreak in DC-area

Madison Dibble · March 29, 2020 6:01 pm

First airlift of medical supplies to New York City arrives

Madison Dibble · March 29, 2020 5:23 pm

A member of the Rhode Island National Guard Military Police directs motorists with New York license plates at a checkpoint on I-95 over the border with Connecticut where New Yorkers must pull over and provide contact information and are told to self-quarantine for two weeks, Saturday, March 28, 2020, in Hope Valley, R.I. Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo on Saturday ordered anyone visiting the state to self-quarantine for 14 days and restricted residents to stay at home and nonessential retail businesses to close Monday until April 13 to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Rhode Island National Guard going door-to-door to find New Yorkers fleeing coronavirus

John Gage · March 29, 2020 3:57 pm

Tapper confronts de Blasio for criticizing Trump after telling people not to worry about coronavirus

Madison Dibble · March 29, 2020 3:36 pm

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

‘Precedents with horrifying consequences’: Brooklyn lawyer sues Cuomo over coronavirus orders

Emma Colton · March 29, 2020 3:15 pm

In this March 2, 2020 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks during a news conference in Ewing, N.J. On Wednesday, March 4, 2020, Murphy, Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, and Acting Governor Sheila Oliver announced the first presumptive positive case of novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, in New Jersey.

New Jersey governor says tri-state quarantine is unnecessary due to ‘aggressive’ steps already taken

John Gage · March 29, 2020 3:03 pm

Trump backs off quarantine of New York area in favor of ‘strong’ travel advisory

Daniel Chaitin · March 29, 2020 12:33 am

President Donald Trump speaks during briefing on coronavirus in the Brady press briefing room at the White House, Saturday, March 14, 2020, in Washington. Listening on the podium from left are, Vice President Mike Pence,, Dr. Anotny Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator,, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Trump considering enforced quarantine of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut

Spencer Neale · March 28, 2020 4:34 pm