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Ohio has been added to the list of states from which people are not allowed to enter New York, New Jersey or Connecticut without first quarantining for 14 days.
Business leaders worry that will hurt Ohio’s companies as they are try to recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic.
The Executive Director of the Ohio Federation of Independent Business, Roger Geiger, said the news is troubling.
“We were letting their executives and their business leaders and their business folks come to Ohio to do trade and commerce but somehow Ohio businesses are not able to do the same, I really do think it raises some interstate commerce questions," Geiger said.
Geiger suggested the federal government step in to keep interstate commerce open.
The governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut came up with an initial list of eight states where positive coronavirus tests made up 10 percent or more of those being tested on a seven-day average, though that list has since grown.
That's different from the positivity rate, which has a seven-day rolling average of 6.3 percent. Over the last week, nearly 11 Ohioans have tested positive for every 100,000 residents.
The 22 states now on the Northeast tri-state quarantine list are:
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Arizona
- California
- Florida
- Georgia
- Iowa
- Idaho
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- North Carolina
- New Mexico
- Nevada
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Wisconsin
Delaware was on the list at one point but was removed as infection rates improved.
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