Mahalo to Debbie Reza for this colourful Hawaii sundown shot for Aloha Friday Photos.
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Hawaii COVID-19 instances have been rising “exponentially” per Hawaii’s Director of Well being, Dr. Anderson. Oahu is the epicenter. The next graph illustrates simply how a lot the virus has elevated on Oahu. (Source)
Oahu is residence to roughly 67% of Hawaii’s inhabitants, however has logged 87% of the state’s instances.
Why have instances skyrocketed on Oahu? Latest clusters have been traced again to massive gatherings in uncontrolled environments corresponding to events, scorching yoga courses, and, sadly, funerals.
In a press conference on Thursday, August 6, Gov. Ige and Oahu Mayor Caldwell introduced new restrictions. First, the necessary 14-day quarantine with inter-island journey that was lifted in June, will probably be partially reinstated. This order applies to passengers flying from Oahu and arriving on the counties of Kauai, Hawaii and Maui. So, for instance, somebody flying from Oahu to Kauai must quarantine, however somebody flying from Kauai to Oahu wouldn’t must quarantine. This partial inter-island quarantine order is because of begin August 11th.
Subsequent, Mayor Caldwell of Oahu announced some stringent rules that go in impact Saturday, August eighth by September 4th. The brand new restrictions are summarized as follows:
- All Oahu parks, mountaineering trails, botanical gardens and seashores are to be closed. Working and strolling by the parks won’t be allowed. The parking tons for parks can even be closed.An individual might solely traverse the seashore to get out and in of the ocean.
- Parking tons for scenic lookouts like Halona Blowhole and Diamond Head will probably be closed.
- The Honolulu Police Division, which serves your entire island of Oahu, is allocating 160 further officers to start extra strict enforcement of coronavirus-related guidelines and will probably be extra more likely to subject citations and make arrests fairly than subject warnings.
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Within the press convention, Gov. Ige was requested if the plans to open tourism with a pre-travel COVID-19 test on September 1st will go ahead. He stated they hope to announce these plans within the subsequent week. Word that the plan has solely been introduced in a conceptual type. Particulars haven’t but been finalized or launched.
If, and it’s a giant if, Hawaii does open September 1st with the pre-travel take a look at program, and you’ve got a visit deliberate to Oahu between September 1st and 4th, think about the restrictions we listed above. You might wish to examine options.
