It is not just that they haven't observed it in New York yet (or the United States, I believe), but in the place where they first observed it - South Africa (and/or Botswana) - I thought that they said the symptoms were mild/asymptomatic. I.e., basically a low grade cold (or nothing).
And they want to jump through hoops over this?
As others noted, this is just Government continuing to try and stomp on our collective necks.