{"id":10381,"date":"2020-08-31T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=10381"},"modified":"2020-09-08T11:37:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:37:56","slug":"massachusetts-exempts-4-more-states-from-quarantine-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/massachusetts-exempts-4-more-states-from-quarantine-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts exempts 4 more states from quarantine requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Massachusetts<\/strong> has<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/coronavirus\/2020\/08\/28\/massachusetts-exempts-4-more-states-from-travel-rules-requiring-visitors-to-quarantine\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">added four new states<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to its quarantine exemption list. Passengers from Colorado, Delaware, Pennsylvania and West Virginia <\/span><b>no longer have to self-isolate on arrival or present a negative Covid test<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A reminder of how the rules work there: Anyone arriving from a &#8220;high-risk&#8221; state must either present a PCR Covid test that is less than 72 hours old or enter quarantine for 14 days, while there are no requirements for travellers from &#8220;low-risk&#8221; states. There\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/forms\/massachusetts-travel-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">travel form<\/a> to fill in too. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/transportation-systems-sector\">Aviation is considered an essential business<\/a> by the U.S. Federal Government. The guidance issued by Massachusetts states that flight crew are &#8220;<\/span>exempt from quarantine while they are commuting to or from or while at work&#8221;,\u00a0 but goes on to say that &#8220;for the first 14-days after arrival, when the worker is not at work or commuting to work they must quarantine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/files\/styles\/embedded_half_width\/public\/2020-08\/US-Travel-Map_2020-08-28_01-01.png?itok=op8vlyHg\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The classifications change frequently, so be sure to check the latest info on the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/covid-19-travel-order\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">official government site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts has added four new states to its quarantine exemption list. Passengers from Colorado, Delaware,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":10382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1604],"class_list":{"0":"post-10381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"tag-massachusetts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10412,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381\/revisions\/10412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}