Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the Finger Lakes remains the region with the highest COVID-19 infection rate in the state. 

The governor is also concerned that rising coronavirus numbers here could impact Western New York where rates have flattened.

"There's a lot of travel between Western New York, between Buffalo, Erie County, Monroe County, etc. And you can't have two contiguous areas, one with a high infection rate, one with a low infection rate, because the high infection rate ends up infecting the low infection rate," said Cuomo during a news conference on Monday.

The governor is again calling for the federal government to protect the country by banning travel from the U.S. to where the new coronavirus strain has shut down England.