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Anyone traveling to Hawaii must test negative for coronavirus before departing on their trip, or else they’ll have to quarantine for two weeks upon arrival, the state announced Thursday. Hawaii ...
The new state requirements are intended as a remedy to ease devastating impacts on Hawaii's tourism economy. Hawaii, with 1.3 million people, has employed strict rules to ward off the coronavirus.
Hawaii has had the strictest entry requirements in the U.S. since reopening to tourists. Those restrictions end on March 26 for domestic travelers.
The governor noted that the number of COVID-19 cases among visitors is "relatively low,'' at 1 or 2%. The bulk of travel-related cases are from residents returning to the island with infections.
Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
In mid-February, the CDC opposed allowing fourteen people who had tested positive for COVID-19 while passengers on the cruise ship Diamond Princess to be flown back to the U.S. without completing a 14-day quarantine. They were overruled by officials at the U.S. State Department. [43]
But gaps in the pre-travel testing program coupled with increasing cases of Covid-19 across the U.S. have raised questions about whether Hawaii is ready to safely welcome back vacationers.
A study in Science found that travel restrictions could delay the initial arrival of COVID-19 in a country, but that they produced only modest overall effects unless combined with infection prevention and control measures to considerably reduce transmissions (this is consistent with prior research on influenza and other communicable diseases).