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

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.