Here's how the news developed today. All times Eastern.
Oct 27, 2020, 4:08 PM EDT
New Yorkers urged to stay home for Thanksgiving
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is urging New Yorkers to avoid traveling over Thanksgiving to keep high COVID-19 numbers from returning to the city.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stands in line with other voters to cast his ballot during early voting in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Oct. 27, 2020.
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“You could be putting your family and yourself in danger and bringing the disease back here," the mayor said, according to ABC New York station WABC. "Everyone is going to make their own decision, I know there are painful choices. I get it. But my recommendation is to avoid travel this holiday season. Stay safe, to keep us all safe.”
Oct 27, 2020, 3:21 PM EDT
California added to New York’s travel advisory list
California has been added to New York’s growing travel advisory list, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.
Forty-five states and territories now meet the travel advisory requirements, Cuomo said. Those who come to New York must quarantine for two weeks if they travel from areas with positive test rates above 10 per 100,000 residents over a one-week average, or an area with a 10% or higher positivity rate over a one-week average.
A Dia de los Muertos altar honoring UFCW Local 770 grocery, drug store, and food processing essential union workers who have died from the coronavirus disease sits on display in Los Angeles, Oct. 26, 2020.
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These are the states and territories on the list: Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania meet the criteria for the travel advisory list, but Cuomo said it’s not practical to enforce a quarantine with neighboring states. New Yorkers are discouraged from nonessential travel to those states.
ABC News’ Josh Hoyos contributed to this report.
Oct 27, 2020, 3:04 PM EDT
Greece, Italy report record rise in cases
Greece reported 1,259 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, a record 24-hour increase, surpassing the 935 new infections reported on Saturday, according to the National Public Health Organization.
People wearing protective face masks walk past a mural by Greek visual artist Hambas, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, in Athens, Greece, Oct. 27, 2020.
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The small Mediterranean country now has over 32,000 cases.
Twelve new deaths were reported on Tuesday, pushing Greece's fatality total to 593.
Meanwhile, Italy on Tuesday also reported a record 24-hour increase -- 21,994 newly diagnosed cases -- breaking a record set on Sunday, according to the Civil Protection Agency.
A patient on a biocontainment stretcher is taken out of an ambulance to be transferred to the San Filippo Neri hospital in Rome, Oct. 27, 2020.
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Italy now has more than 564,000 cases and at least 37,700 fatalities.
Walter Ricciardi, a top Italian physician and adviser to Health Minister Roberto Speranza, called for Naples and Milan to be locked down on Tuesday, saying "in Milan and Naples you can get COVID by walking into a bar or a restaurant or catching a bus."
ABC News’ Christine Theodorou contributed to this report.
Oct 27, 2020, 12:25 PM EDT
Birx blasts ND city for having lowest mask use of anywhere she’s visited
White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx visited shops and restaurants in Bismark, North Dakota, on Monday, where she said she saw the lowest make use of anywhere she’s visited, local TV station KFYR-TV reported.
“There is not only evidence that masks work, there is evidence that masks used as a public health mitigation effort works,” Birx said, according to KFYR-TV.
Dr. Deborah Birx, left, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, talks during a round table discussion with North Dakota's state and local government and medical leaders on the campus of Bismarck State College, Oct. 26, 2020.
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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is against a statewide mask ruling, instead leaving it up to local governments, KFYR said. In Bismark, the city commission is expected to vote on a mask order Tuesday night, according to KFYR.
