Hawaii tightens COVID restrictions for restaurants, bars but no changes to visitor entry requirements
visitors who have been scrambling to find reservations. But the dangerous delta variant dictates a cut in capacity, Ige said.
Hawaii is seeing a seven-day average of more than 500 cases per day and a test positivity rate of 7.25%, Ige said. Those figures a month ago: 60 cases per day and a test positive rate of 2.25%.
“We need to take action and we need to take action now,” he said.
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Ige said Hawaii is evaluating its Safe Travels program, which includes the most strict travel restrictions in the United States. Visitors currently must present a negative COVID test or be vaccinated to bypass the state’s mandatory 10-day quarantine.
Visitors with upcoming trips have peppering travel agents and Hawaii travel message groups with questions about possible changes, including a return to pre-departure travel testing requirements for all visitors regardless of vaccination status. That was the case before July 8, when a vaccine exemption took effect.
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