Hawaii’s 14-day necessary COVID-19 quarantine to proceed till Might 31, 2020

*** UPDATE: See this hyperlink: Hawaii traveler restrictions extended through June for the entire state. ***

On April 25, 2020, Gov. Ige introduced a new supplementary emergency proclamation to proceed the necessary 14-day quarantine for all individuals touring to the state of Hawaii and/or touring inter-island. This quarantine is to proceed by Might 31, 2020. As a reminder, these are the quarantine requirements:

The necessary 14-day self-quarantine orders are:

1. 1. Proceed immediately from the airport to your designated quarantine location, which is the situation recognized and affirmed by you on the necessary State of Hawai‘i Division of Agriculture Crops and Animals Declaration Kind.
   2. Stay in your designated quarantine location for a interval of 14 days or the period of your keep within the State of Hawai‘i, whichever is shorter.

• • • If you’re a resident, your designated quarantine location is your house of residence.
    • If you’re a customer, your designated quarantine location is your lodge room or rented lodging.
    • You’ll be able to solely go away your designated quarantine location for medical emergencies or to hunt medical care.

1. 1. Don’t go to any public areas, together with however not restricted to swimming pools, assembly rooms, health facilities or eating places.
   2. Don’t enable guests in or out of your designated quarantine location apart from a doctor, healthcare supplier, or particular person licensed to enter the designated quarantine location by the Director of HIEMA.
   3. Adjust to any and all guidelines or protocols associated to your quarantine as set forth by your lodge or rented lodging.
   4. Should you turn out to be sick with a fever or cough:

• • • Proceed to remain in designated quarantine location, keep away from contact with others and call a healthcare supplier for additional directions on remedy or testing.
    • If you’re older or have any medical situations (e.g., immune compromise, diabetes, bronchial asthma), seek the advice of your common healthcare supplier.
    • Should you really feel you want medical care, contact healthcare supplier and inform them of your journey historical past.
    • Should you want pressing medical care (e.g., have problem respiratory), name 9-1-1 and let the dispatcher know your journey historical past).

Failure to observe this order is a misdemeanor and punishable by a most advantageous of $5,000, or imprisonment of not a couple of yr, or each.  Enforcement shall be dealt with by every of Hawaiʻi’s 4 counties.

Along with the continuation of the quarantine necessities, the governor’s new supplementary emergency proclamation additionally prolonged Hawaii’s stay-at-home orders by Might 31, 2020. In his press convention, the governor mentioned,

“The stay-at-home order means residents might go away their houses just for varied important wants, together with healthcare, buying meals, drugs, gasoline, taking good care of the aged, minors, or these with disabilities, returning to a spot of residence outdoors of Hawai‘i, selecting up instructional supplies for distance studying, receiving meals or different associated providers. Out of doors train can also be permitted – together with swimming, browsing and strolling pets.

As well as, working, jogging or strolling on the seashore shall be permitted, so long as social distancing necessities are noticed.”

Within the governor’s April 25, 2020 press conference, he did point out that there’s a risk of stress-free some restrictions earlier than the top of Might. That will be contingent on an extra lower within the variety of instances, complete testing and a surveillance capability and a well-developed contact tracing system.

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So, what’s going to occur in June and past? What does it imply for tourism? It’s all very speculative at this level. Nobody has expertise in restarting tourism within the dwindling days of a world pandemic. There’s not a change to flip every little thing again to regular beginning June 1, 2020.

Listed below are some questions now we have that nobody has the solutions to:

• Might a customer quarantine be prolonged previous Might 31, 2020? After the 14-day quarantine is lifted, might a special quarantine be required? As a substitute of 14-days, would a shorter quarantine be required?
• Will any virus testing be required for incoming guests?
• When will eating places, excursions and sights reopen?
• When will seashores reopen for sunbathing and loitering?
• What kind of social distancing necessities will there be within the early days of reopening and going ahead?
• How shortly after Might 31, 2020 can accommodations, eating places and excursions restart and ramp up operations?
• How shortly will the airways have the ability to reply to rising flights again to Hawaii?
• Will guests be welcomed to Hawaii? Whereas some shall be welcoming, others dislike guests. Previous to the shutdown, there was a stigma constructing towards guests. We nonetheless see and listen to the continuation of this stigma with some residents totally blaming guests for bringing the coronavirus to Hawaii even though the overwhelming majority of instances had been introduced in by Hawaii residents who traveled outdoors of the state.

As you may see, there are numerous inquiries to reply within the coming weeks.

Associated assets for an extra understanding of the ideas and plans to reopen tourism in Hawaii:

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*** UPDATE: See this hyperlink: Hawaii traveler restrictions extended through June for the entire state. ***

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