Lieutenant Governor Josh Inexperienced posts a brief, however informative COVID-19 abstract video daily on his Facebook page. For would-be vacationers to Hawaii, the June ninth video had some hints of encouraging information.
In fact, nothing is official but, however the lieutenant governor appears to point {that a} plan to reopen tourism is about to come back collectively. He calls it “Journey with Aloha” and it entails pre-testing for COVID-19 previous to a visit to Hawaii. If a customer exams detrimental inside a window of time (maybe 48 or 72 hours) previous to a visit, they’d have the ability to come to Hawaii with no 14-day quarantine.
Within the June 9 abstract video, the lieutenant governor says that the state is working with quite a few entities with a aim to pre-test vacationers to Hawaii. He mentioned, “We must always have a call within the subsequent couple of days. Proper now it’s trying fairly good to do that. So, this can make it safer to come back to Hawaii. We received’t have to fret a couple of surge…”
You’ll be able to watch the lieutenant governor’s briefing video from Fb that we’ve embedded under. It’s lower than 90-seconds lengthy.
Journey with Aloha has been in discussions for greater than a month. We first wrote about it on May 12. Alaska has already carried out the same plan. Now, it seems that Journey with Aloha might develop into a actuality. We’ll undoubtedly be retaining an in depth watch on any information in direction of this plan and publish accordingly. Keep tuned.
When may this plan be in place? Per this KHON segment/article, the lieutenant governor is pushing to have a pre-testing plan in place by July 15 if the governor approves.
As a reminder, at the moment there’s a 14-day quarantine required for all incoming vacationers to Hawaii. That order is in impact by a minimum of June 30, 2020.
