Only 1 State Exempt From MA's Travel Order After Vermont Dropped

Boston MA

28 November, 2020

8:33 AM

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As if you need an excuse to go to Hawaii, the island is the only state in America on Massachusetts' travel order-exempt list after the Bay State removed Vermont. What it means is that people — including Bay State residents — coming from the other 48 states in the continental U.S. cannot travel to Massachusetts without quarantining for 14 days or producing a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of arrival. Failure to comply with the travel order — even from neighboring states New England states — could result in a fine of up to $500. Amid a nationwide coronavirus surge, every state but Hawaii fails to qualify as lower-risk, which requires seven-day averages of daily cases per 100,000 below 10 and a positive test rate below 5 percent. Massachusetts last week removed New Hampshire and Maine from the travel order-exempt list, leaving Vermont as the only state within 5,000 miles exempt from the order.