NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Urges Feds To Set Mandatory Covid-19 Tests For Inbound Flights; NY State Screens For New Strain – “If The Variant Is Here, I Want To Know”
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — spooked like much of nation at a more infectious Covid-19 strain identified in the U.K. – asked the federal government to require that airlines test all passengers on U.S.-bound flights. He clinched an unusual private arrangement with three of them, Delta, British Air and Virgin Atlantic, which agreed to test people flying from the U.K. to New York. But that doesn’t stop flights to other states, risking a replay of early 2020 when the virus first snuck in from Europe.