(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) New York and other three states implemented 14 days of quarantine for travelers from high-risk states in the United States
China News Agency, New York, June 24: To prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, the governors of the three states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut issued a joint statement on the 24th, requiring 14-day quarantine for passengers arriving from the high-risk states of the United States.
New York Governor Andrew Como held a joint press conference with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Conn Governor Ned Lamont in New York City that day to announce the matter. The high-risk areas mentioned in the statement are divided into two categories: one is based on the 7-day rolling average, and the state has more than 10 people diagnosed with infection per 100,000 people; the second is based on the 7-day rolling average, and the positive rate of the new coronavirus test is higher than 10% State. Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Utah and Texas currently meet the standards. The quarantine instruction will take effect in the early hours of the 25th.
Como said that New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have made great efforts to control the epidemic and cannot sit back and watch the risk of rebound. Murphy and Lamont said that in order to control the epidemic, the three states have adopted many strict prevention and control measures in the past. The quarantine order is still to prevent and control the epidemic and protect public health. Since the outbreak of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic in the United States, New York has been the epicenter of the epidemic in the United States. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, there are currently nearly 390,000 people diagnosed with infection in New York State, nearly 170,000 in New Jersey, and nearly 45,000 in Connecticut.
"The New York Times" said that while the epidemic situation in New York State and other places continued to alleviate, the recent outbreaks in other parts of the United States showed an outbreak. On the 23rd, the United States reported more than 35,000 cases of confirmed infections, the highest value since the end of April. The Wall Street Journal analyzed data from Johns Hopkins University and found that as of the 23rd, the 7-day average of the newly diagnosed infections in 33 states including South Carolina and Washington State has been higher than the level of two weeks ago. Since June 13th, the 7-day average growth rate of newly diagnosed infections across the United States is higher than the 14-day average growth rate. This shows that the recent epidemic may accelerate in the United States.
Affected by the epidemic, the steady rise in the US stock market over the past two weeks has been interrupted. On the 24th, the three major stock indexes in the New York stock market fell sharply. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.72%, the S&P 500 index fell 2.59%, and the Nasdaq fell 2.19%. The Wall Street Journal said that if the epidemic develops according to the current trend, investors worry that the rapid recovery of the US economy is hopeless; the International Monetary Fund predicts that the global economy will shrink by 4.9% in 2020. Unfavorable factors at home and abroad have jointly suppressed the stock market. (Finish)