NJ travel advisory DOES NOT affect bordering states

This afternoon, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, along with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, issued a travel advisory requiring visitors arriving from states with high COVID-19 rates to quarantine for 14 days.

Immediately, social media lit up with confusion and misinformation.

To be clear, this travel advisory DOES NOT affect states bordering or in close proximity to New Jersey. So, visitors from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC, along with Ohio and Michigan, need not be concerned.

Effective Thursday, June 25, the advisory applies to those traveling from Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Utah and Texas.

As noted by Governor Murphy and his constituents, these states currently have "a positive COVID-19 test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a 7-day rolling average" or have "a 10 percent higher positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average."