Kentucky issues updated travel advisory: Anyone who visited these 8 states asked to self-quarantine
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has updated the state's travel advisory list Monday, asking anyone who visited eight states across the nation to self-quarantine for 14 days.
The travel advisory echoes that of several other such advisories across the nation.
The governor is asking individuals coming into Kentucky from states that are reporting positive testing rates of 15% or higher to self-quarantine for two weeks.
As of Monday afternoon, the list includes Alabama (21.55%), Arizona (18.42%), Florida (18.82%), Idaho (18.19%), Nevada (17.05%), South Carolina (14.22%), Kansas (18.59%) and Mississippi (21.12%).
On July 20, Beshear issued a travel advisory list. Since then, Georgia and Texas have been taken off the list and Kansas and Mississippi have been added to the list.
Beshear said even though Texas has been taken off the list, he still advises against traveling there, but noted the state is "headed in a better direction."
"Let's continue to cancel our trips if they are in these dangerous places," Beshear said Monday.
State officials clarified that this is an advisory, not an order.
“This is a recommendation. This is an advisory. We’re telling you what you need to do to stay safe and to not get affected. It’s your choice – at some level – what to do. When we have to, we make requirements, but I want to continue to inspire people to do the right thing,” said the state’s public health commissioner, Steven Stack.