President Donald Trump backed away from imposing a quarantine for New York and parts of New Jersey and Connecticut to stop the spread of Covid-19, after floating the idea on isolating those hard-hit areas earlier in the day.
In an announcement on Twitter, Trump followed up on a suggestion he first raised on Saturday at the White House, but avoided the harshest outcome. “A quarantine will not be necessary," Trump said.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a statement about an hour later that urged residents in the tri-state area to refrain from non-essential travel for 14 days, effective immediately.