COVID-19 Update

The State of Hawaiʻi has established a multi-layered testing and screening process to protect the health and safety of everyone traveling to the Hawaiian Islands. All incoming travelers – residents and visitors - are required to have their temperatures checked and complete a health and travel questionnaire using the Safe Travels digital system before they can leave the airport.

In addition, all incoming travelers are subject to a 14-day mandatory quarantine upon arrival. Beginning Oct. 15, a pre-travel testing option will allow travelers an alternative to the 14-day quarantine.

Note: (The Hawai‘i State Dept. of Agriculture paper form continues to be distributed to passengers during flights and is still required to be completed prior to arrival)

Evidence of a negative COVID-19 test result must be provided upon arrival to the Hawaiian Islands. For this option, the State of Hawai‘i is requiring all travelers to Hawai‘i to take an FDA-authorized NAAT test from a CLIA certified laboratory no earlier than three days before your flight arrival date. Travelers also will have their temperatures checked upon arrival and must fill out a travel and health form.

Travelers will be able to upload their negative test result when they complete their travel and health forms on the Safe Travels digital system, found at travel.hawaii.gov.

Yes.

The 14-day quarantine for passengers arriving from out-of-state will remain. Any traveler who is unable to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test will be required to quarantine.

Currently, the mandatory 14-day interisland self-quarantine applies to anyone arriving on Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i Island, Maui, Moloka‘i and Lāna‘i, and also traveling between these islands. It does not include interisland travelers arriving on O‘ahu. The interisland quarantine for anyone arriving on any island other than O‘ahu continues through Sept. 30, unless terminated or extended by a separate emergency proclamation.

The State of Hawai‘i will accept results from any FDA-authorized NAAT test, processed by a CLIA certified laboratory that is taken no earlier than three days before your flight arrival date. Currently approved trusted testing partners are: CVS and Kaiser Permanente. Trusted testing partners are entities that understand exactly what the State requires in terms of this program. Additionally, the state will accept test results from other sources so long as they meet the testing parameters set forth by the DOH, which are an FDA-authorized NAAT test processed by a CLIA certified lab.

Whether through CVS, Kaiser or another source, it is the traveler’s responsibility to confirm they are receiving the correct test.

No.

An antibody test will NOT be accepted. The State of Hawai‘i is requiring an FDA-authorized NAAT test, processed by a CLIA certified laboratory taken no earlier than three days before your flight arrival date.

Currently approved trusted testing partners are: CVS and Kaiser Permanente. Trusted testing partners are entities that understand exactly what the State requires in terms of this program. Additionally, the state will accept test results from other sources so long as they meet the testing parameters set forth by the DOH, which are an FDA-authorized NAAT test that is processed by a CLIA certified lab.

You will be required to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival and will only be allowed to leave your lodging for a medical emergency. There is no option to test upon arrival.

State personnel at Hawai‘i’s airports will verify the results.

For those completing their entire 14-day quarantine, there is currently no release documentation being provided.

For those who get their negative test result after arrival, the state will send you a confirmation and your name will be removed from the quarantine list.

This varies by location. Please check with your doctor or review the health requirements in your area.

Currently approved trusted testing partners are: CVS and Kaiser Permanente. Trusted testing partners are entities who understand exactly what the State requires in terms of this program. Additionally, the state will accept test results from other sources so long as they meet the testing parameters set forth by the DOH, which are an FDA-authorized NAAT test that is processed by a CLIA certified lab.

Travelers may also bring hard copies of the test results for verification upon landing in Hawaii.

Upon arrival in Hawai‘i, passengers unable to provide proof of an approved negative test will be required to go into quarantine, until such time they receive a negative test result. They must remain in quarantine for 14 days or until their proof of negative test results.

No.

Travelers who don’t have test results upon arrival will be subject to the 14-day quarantine.

Without a pre-test, travelers are required to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in Hawaiʻi.

No.

This is a pre-travel testing program. However, when travelers go through the screening process upon arrival, a COVID-19 test may be offered if the traveler is symptomatic or a temperature check indicates a temperature of 100.4 degrees or higher, or answers upon arrival indicate that the traveler should be tested. The arrival test will not be offered in place of the pre-travel test.

The traveler is responsible for the cost of the pretravel test.

Please check with your insurance provider.

Yes.

If you arrive prior to Oct. 15, you will still need to complete the full 14-day quarantine. The pre-travel testing program starts on Oct. 15. Any travelers who arrive before then will need to quarantine.

Yes.

All travelers wishing to avoid quarantine need to get a pre-travel test.

If test results are not available upon their arrival, the traveler will remain in quarantine until the negative test results are reported to the State Department of Health.

The Hawai‘i State Department of Health.

Any traveler who has a positive test result must remain in quarantine. Health services guidance will also be provided by the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health.

Anyone experiencing fever, cough or shortness of breath should immediately call and follow their doctor’s guidance. Visitors staying at hotels should call their front desk to notify them and get information on available healthcare services, or they can call 211 for referral to healthcare services.

Yes. All travelers into the state – including Hawaiʻi residents – will need to get tested no earlier than three days before their flight arrival date, otherwise they must undergo the 14-day quarantine upon return.

No.

Upon arrival, all travelers will undergo a temperature scan at their arrival gate. Travelers with temperatures of 100.4 and above will be taken to secondary screening and offered a COVID-19 PCR test with results available generally after 24–48 hours.

All travelers also must fill out the State of Hawaiʻi Safe Travels travel and health form, found at travel.hawaii.gov.

If the traveler has a printout of their negative result and has not yet uploaded it on the Safe Travels digital system, airport screeners upon arrival will take a photo of the hard-copy negative test result.

Enforcement will be conducted by State and County law enforcement agencies.

The state will continue to support these efforts and work with county law enforcement partners. Anyone required to quarantine for 14 days must check in daily, as instructed on the Safe Travels digital system.

The traveler will be given proof of release by the Dept. of Health.

You must quarantine in a hotel room.

Passengers who have a layover in Honolulu do not have to quarantine if they will not be leaving the airport. However, passengers who are transiting through Hawaiʻi and their connecting flight is not the same day and therefore will be leaving the airport, will need to quarantine for 14 days or the duration of their stay in Hawaiʻi.

As of Sept. 16, 2020: Persons arriving in the State on recreational boats that have been at sea for at least 14 days do not have to self-quarantine if no one on the boat is ill or experiencing COVID-19 symptoms.

The no sail order remains in effect for cruise ships, and all disembarking cruise ship passengers will be required to go through the health screening process, including the thermal screening and completion of the questionnaire.

Counties have the authority to establish resort bubbles, with the state’s approval. Please contact the specific county you are interested in to see if they have a resort bubble program.

Please check with the county you are staying in to see what rules are in effect just prior to your arrival. You may also want to contact the restaurants and attractions you are interested in visiting to check on their status.