Cuomo warns visitors from 'highest-risk' coronavirus states to fill out paperwork or face $2,000 fine

When traveling overseas and returning to the USA the airlines hand out US Customs & Border Protection documents that need to be filled out upon re-entering the USA. Now, if you fly into any NY airport documents will be handed out and be filled in by passengers arriving in NY about where they came from and where are they going to with current contact information. If the paperwork is not handed in before leaving the airport it's an immediate $2000 fine. This is to be sure people arriving from hot spots quarantine 14 days upon arrival.

From Fox News Greg Norman

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is now warning out-of-state travelers they could face up to $2,000 in fines if they leave its airports without handing over their contact information upon arrival.

"We can't be in a situation where we have people coming from other states in the country bringing the virus again,” Cuomo told reporters Monday.

“We're going to have the Department of Health issue an emergency health order today that will mandate that out-of-state travelers from the states... must provide a location form before they leave the airport,” he said.

The forms, Cuomo says, will be handed out by airlines before planes land and will also be available online.

“If you leave the airport without providing the information, you will receive a summons immediately with a $2,000 fine,” the governor warned. “If you leave the airport without filling out the information, not only can you have a $2,000 fine, you can then be brought to a hearing and ordered to complete mandatory  quarantine."

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo briefs the media during a coronavirus news conference at his office in New York in May. He is now looking for further enforce a 14-day quarantine for people visiting New York from certain states. (AP/New York Post).

The warning comes following “instances of non-compliance,” Cuomo said.

In late June, Cuomo issued an executive order stating that “all travelers entering New York from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents, or higher than a 10 percent test positivity rate, over a seven day rolling average, will be required to quarantine for a period of 14 days consistent with Department of Health regulations for quarantine.”

New York, to date, has led the nation with 401,706 coronavirus cases and 32,350 deaths, according to statistics from Johns Hopkins University.