Travelers to NY, New Jersey, Connecticut Are Told to Isolate

Victim of Injustice Smeared Black Paint on Court Entrance

Honest News Straight to Your Home. Try the Epoch Times yourself, and get a free gift. A man angered by a judiciary judgment in China took out his anger at the judge’s sentencing by smearing black paint on the front gate and pillars of Mianyang Intermediate Court on June 8. The following video was taken right after the incident. Several staff members at the gate were seen making calls, likely to report the incident to police and higher authorities. Focus News: Victim of Injustice Smeared Black Paint on Court Entrance

NEW YORK—The governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut announced on Wednesday that visitors from states with high CCP virus infection rates must self-quarantine for 14 days on arrival.

“We now have to make sure the rates continue to drop,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday at a video briefing with Govs. Phil Murphy of New Jersey and Ned Lamont of Connecticut. “We also have to make sure the virus doesn’t come on a plane again.”

As of Wednesday, states over the threshold were Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Washington, Cuomo told reporters.

What was presented as a “travel advisory” affects three adjacent Northeastern states that after time were able to check the spread of the virus this spring as New York City became a hot spot for the pandemic.

And the governors are now warily eying other states with rising caseloads, trying to keep history from repeating itself.

“This is a smart thing to do,” New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said via video at a joint news conference in New York City. “We have taken our people, the three of us from these three states, through hell and back, and the last thing we need to do right now is subject our folks to another round.”

Travelers to NY, New Jersey, Connecticut Are Told to Isolate

The states’ health departments will provide details of how the rule will work, Murphy said. Visitors to New York from affected states will be informed that they need to quarantine and that violators could face a mandatory quarantine and a fine, Cuomo said.

The quarantine is voluntary but “urgent guidance,” Lamont said at a briefing in Hartford, noting it will be enforced differently in each state. Connecticut is considering putting up signs at entry points and getting the word out via social media.

The announcement comes as summer travel to the states’ beaches, parks and other attractions—not to mention New York City—would normally swing into high gear.

New York was for a time the epicenter of the CCP virus outbreak but has since lowered its infection rate after locking down much of its economy.

“We had the worst infection rate. The rate of transmission was the highest. We now have the lowest rate of transmission,” Cuomo said last week, citing new lows in the number of hospitalizations and deaths.

“Our number of hospitalizations, lowest level since we started, amen, 1,400,” Cuomo said. “Number of deaths, 17 deaths in the state of New York. 17. Lowest number since we started.”

Reuters and Epoch Times staff contributed to this report.

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Mnuchin Says US-China Decoupling Will Occur If Firms Can’t Compete Fairly

WASHINGTON鈥擴.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday that a decoupling of the U.S. and Chinese economies will result if U.S. companies are not allowed to compete on a fair and level basis in China’s economy. Speaking at a virtual event sponsored by Bloomberg and Invesco, Mnuchin said he also had “every expectation” that China would live up to the terms of the Phase 1 trade agreement calling for a massive increase in Chinese purchases of U.S. goods, energy, and services. “If we can compete with China on a fair and level playing field, it is a great opportunity for U.S. businesses and U.S. workers, as China has a large, growing middle class,” he said. “But if we can’t participate and compete on a fair basis, then you are going…