HARTFORD (WWLP/CT.gov) – Anyone traveling into Connecticut from a state or territory, apart from New York, New Jersey, or Rhode Island, or from a rustic apart from the United States, is directed to self-quarantine for a 10-day interval from the time of final contact inside the recognized state or nation.
Executive Order Regarding Travel: Pursuant to Governor Lamont’s Executive Order No. 9S
Anyone getting into from one of many recognized states that may spend greater than 24 hours in Connecticut should fill out a journey well being kind upon arrival on-line at ct.gov/travelform.
For further steering on worldwide journey, go to the COVID-19 Travel Recommendations part of the CDC’s web site.
Frequently Asked Questions about Connecticut’s Travel Policies for Travelers traveling on or after 12:01 a.m. on January 21, 2021
1. How is that this going to be enforced? Failure to self-quarantine or to finish the Travel Health Form might end in a civil penalty of $500 for every violation.
2. What is an Affected State? An Affected State is a state or territory, apart from New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.
3. Why are New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island exempted from the listing of Affected States? Given the interconnected nature of the area and mode of transport between the states, New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island are being exempted from the listing of Affected States and subsequently not topic to the necessities to self-quarantine and full a Travel Health Form. That stated, residents of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island are urged to keep away from pointless or non-essential journey between states right now.
4. What is an Affected Country? An Affected Country is a rustic apart from United States.
5. To whom does the Connecticut Travel Advisory apply? The requirement to self-quarantine and full the Travel Health Form is relevant to any traveler who has spent twenty-four (24) hours or longer in an Affected State or an Affected Country inside ten (10) days previous to arriving in Connecticut however doesn’t embrace a person remaining in Connecticut for lower than twenty-four (24) hours. These necessities are additionally relevant to Connecticut residents who’re returning from a go to to an Affected State or an Affected Country.
6.Does the Connecticut Travel Advisory apply to Affected Travelers who’re minors, i.e., underneath the age of 18? Yes, the Connecticut Travel Advisory applies to all Affected Travelers, together with Affected Travelers who’re minors. Therefore, a minor (underneath age 18) who’s an Affected Traveler is required to self-quarantine for a interval of ten (10) days from the time she or he was final within the Affected State or the Affected Country, except such traveler qualifies for an exemption from the requirement to self-quarantine. With respect to the Travel Health Form, any minor who’s an Affected Traveler is required to individually full and submit such kind solely when the minor is unaccompanied by an grownup except exempt due to a Court-ordered Child Custody Visitation Schedule.
7. What does self-quarantine imply? Self-quarantine means to remain house or in your designated self-quarantine location, separate your self from others, and monitor your well being. You mustn’t enter any public locations, together with, however not restricted to, eating places, swimming pools, assembly rooms, or gatherings, in the course of the obligatory interval of self-quarantine. You might go away your designated self-quarantine location for medical visits, to acquire medicine or to buy for groceries. A self-quarantine is used to maintain somebody who may need been uncovered to COVID-19 away from others. The self-quarantine helps stop unfold of illness that may happen earlier than an individual is aware of they’re sick or if they’re contaminated with the virus with out feeling signs.
8. If I’m traveling from an Affected State or an Affected Country to Connecticut to hunt or acquire medical remedy, am I required to self-quarantine after I arrive in Connecticut? Yes, you’re required to self-quarantine whenever you arrive in Connecticut from an Affected State or an Affected Country should you had been in such Affected State or such Affected Country for twenty-four (24) hours or longer inside ten (10) days previous to arriving in Connecticut. While you’re required to self-quarantine, chances are you’ll go away your designated self-quarantine location to go to your medical process or different medical appointment. When you do go away your designated self-quarantine location and when in public after your obligatory self-quarantine interval, you’re required to put on a face masking when in public and when a six-foot distance from others is unavoidable, except you’ve got a medical situation that stops you from sporting one and you’ve got written documentation that you’re certified for the exemption from a licensed medical supplier, the Department of Developmental Services or different state company that gives or helps providers for folks with emotional, mental or bodily disabilities, or an individual approved by any such company.
9. Are there any exemptions for important staff who should journey for work? Yes. Workers traveling from Affected States or Affected Countries to Connecticut and from Connecticut to Affected States or Affected Countries who work in crucial infrastructure as designated by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, together with college students in exempt well being care professions, and any state, native, and federal officers and workers, are exempt from the self-quarantine requirement when such journey is work-related. Such important staff are nonetheless required to finish the Travel Health Form. Please be aware that if the important employee travels from an Affected State or Affected Country to Connecticut and from Connecticut to an Affected State or Affected Country for work however spends lower than twenty-four (24) hours in Connecticut or within the Affected State or Affected Country, respectively, then the important employee is just not an Affected Traveler and the Connecticut Travel Advisory doesn’t apply to her or him.
10. If I’m a vital employee who visited an Affected State or an Affected Country on trip, am I required to self-quarantine upon my return to Connecticut? Yes, important staff who journey to Connecticut from an Affected State or an Affected Country or from Connecticut to an Affected State or an Affected Country for trip or different non-work associated causes are required to self-quarantine and full the Travel Health Form.
11.How lengthy is the self-quarantine? The Connecticut Travel Advisory requires guests to Connecticut from Affected States or Affected Countries to self-quarantine for a interval of ten (10) days from the time they had been final within the Affected State or the Affected Country. If you board a airplane in an Affected State or an Affected Country at this time, and land in Connecticut at this time, your ten (10) days begins at this time. If you’re in Connecticut for a interval lower than ten (10) days, it’s best to plan to be in self-quarantine all through your go to. If you left an Affected State or an Affected Country and frolicked in non-Affected States or non-Affected Countries previous to arriving in Connecticut, you begin counting your ten (10) day interval from the time you left the Affected State or Affected Country. Consequently, if solely 5 (5) of these ten (10) days are spent in Connecticut, you will have to self-quarantine in Connecticut for these 5 (5) days.
12. If I’m coming to Connecticut to a resort or mattress and breakfast, can I self-quarantine there? Yes. Travelers are required to self-quarantine at their house, or a resort or different non permanent lodging.
13.Does the self-quarantine requirement additionally prolong to passengers flying from non-Affected States to Connecticut on flights with layovers in Affected States earlier than arriving in Connecticut? No. The requirement to self-quarantine doesn’t apply to vacationers who’ve a layover in an Affected State, offered the layover is for lower than twenty-four (24) hours. If you spend twenty-four (24) hours or longer within the Affected State, it’s essential to self-quarantine whenever you arrive in Connecticut.
14.If an Affected Traveler who’s required to self-quarantine stays at my home, am I and my household, who haven’t been traveling, additionally required to self-quarantine? No, you and your loved ones aren’t required to self-quarantine. However, all ordinary COVID-19 precautions must be undertaken.
15.Are minor youngsters traveling to Connecticut from an Affected State or Affected Country attributable to little one custody /visitation obligations required to self-quarantine? If any Affected Traveler is a minor little one who’s the topic of a Court-ordered visitation schedule that requires such little one to journey between mother and father for functions of visitation when one guardian resides in Connecticut and the opposite guardian resides in an Affected State or Country, such little one, upon return to Connecticut, shall be exempt from the self-quarantine requirement, offered such visitation schedule happens on a incessantly recurring foundation and such little one is asymptomatic for COVID-19 on the time of journey. If symptomatic on the time of journey, such little one ought to delay journey and seek the advice of with a medical skilled. Such little one shall even be exempt from submitting a Travel Health Form in accordance with this Travel Advisory. If such little one’s visitation schedule is rare (ninety days or longer between visitations), he/she shall self-quarantine and file a Travel Health Form except in any other case exempted.
16. Can vacationers be examined for COVID-19 as an alternative of self-quarantine? Yes, an Affected Traveler is exempt from the self-quarantine requirement if the Affected Traveler (1) has had a take a look at for COVID-19 within the seventy-two (72) hours previous to arrival in Connecticut or at any time following arrival in Connecticut, (2) the results of such COVID-19 take a look at is destructive, and (3) she or he has offered written proof of such destructive take a look at outcome to the Commissioner of Public Health through electronic mail to: DPH.COVID-Travel@ct.gov or through facsimile to: (860) 326-0529. All take a look at outcomes submitted to DPH are confidential. All COVID-19 assessments, apart from COVID-19 antibody assessments, are acceptable for this testing choice. If a take a look at was obtained within the seventy-two (72) hours previous to arrival in Connecticut, or following arrival in Connecticut, and such Affected Traveler has not but acquired his or her take a look at outcomes, such traveler shall stay in self-quarantine in Connecticut till a destructive take a look at result’s submitted to the Commissioner. If the take a look at result’s optimistic and the traveler is asymptomatic, she or he shall self-isolate for ten (10) days from the date of the take a look at; if symptomatic, she or he ought to search medical help. Travelers who take a look at optimistic for COVID-19 previous to traveling to Connecticut ought to delay such journey and seek the advice of with a medical skilled. All Affected Travelers are required to finish the Travel Health Form.
17.What assessments are acceptable for the testing choice? All COVID-19 assessments, apart from COVID-19 antibody assessments, are acceptable for the testing choice.
18.What if I’m a Connecticut resident and am visiting an Affected State for lower than seventy-two (72) hours, might I be examined in Connecticut previous to visiting the Affected State if I acquire the take a look at seventy-two (72) hours previous to my subsequent return to Connecticut? No, it’s essential to have the take a look at for COVID-19 both while you’re within the Affected State, so long as the take a look at is obtained within the seventy-two (72) hours previous to your arrival in Connecticut, or following your arrival in Connecticut. If the take a look at was obtained within the seventy-two (72) hours previous to your arrival in Connecticut, or following your arrival in Connecticut, and you haven’t but acquired your take a look at outcomes whenever you return to Connecticut, you shall stay in self-quarantine in Connecticut till a destructive take a look at result’s submitted to the Commissioner of Public Health through electronic mail to: DPH.COVID-Travel@ct.gov or through facsimile to: (860) 326-0529. All take a look at outcomes submitted to DPH are confidential.
19.If I’ve already examined optimistic for COVID-19 and have recovered, do I must self-quarantine upon my arrival to Connecticut? An individual who has examined optimistic for COVID-19 inside ninety (90) days previous to his or her arrival in Connecticut and who has clinically recovered, or who has not been symptomatic for a interval of ten (10) days since symptom onset or such optimistic take a look at if not symptomatic, is just not required to self-quarantine upon his or her arrival to Connecticut, offered such particular person submits, previous to or instantly upon arrival in Connecticut, written proof of such optimistic take a look at outcome to the Commissioner of Public Health through electronic mail to: DPH.COVID-Travel@ct.gov or through facsimile to: (860) 326-0529. All take a look at outcomes submitted to DPH are confidential. All COVID-19 assessments, apart from COVID-19 antibody assessments, are acceptable for this testing choice. Such particular person remains to be required to finish a Travel Health Form. An individual who has had a optimistic take a look at outcome for COVID-19 greater than ninety (90) days previous to arriving in Connecticut is required to self-quarantine and full a Travel Health Form.
20.If I’m an Affected Traveler however have been vaccinated for COVID-19, am I exempt from the necessities to self-quarantine upon arrival in Connecticut and exempt from submitting a Travel Health Form? At the current time, an Affected Traveler who has been vaccinated towards COVID-19 remains to be topic to the self-quarantine requirement and should additionally submit a Travel Health Form, except they’re in any other case exempt.
21. I’m a international scholar arriving for school/college. Do I must self-quarantine? If you had been in an Affected Country inside ten (10) days previous to arriving in Connecticut, then you’re required to self-quarantine upon your arrival to Connecticut, except you qualify for an exemption from the requirement to self-quarantine. Affected Countries are nations apart from the United States. You must also seek advice from your school or college’s necessities for returning to campus and the “COVID-19 Travel Recommendations” part of the CDC’s web site.
22.May I full the Travel Health Form after I’ve arrived in Connecticut? You are required to finish the Travel Health Form previous to or no later than upon the day of your arrival in Connecticut.
23.Are minors required to finish the Travel Health Form? Any minor who’s an Affected Traveler is required to individually full and submit a Travel Health Form solely when such minor is unaccompanied by an grownup.
24.Should non-essential journey to Affected States and Affected Countries be averted? Yes. Because of the chance of contracting an infection, and due to the necessity to self-quarantine on return, Connecticut residents are urged to keep away from journey to the Affected States or Affected Countries at any time when attainable.
25. If I do know somebody has traveled to Connecticut from an Affected State or an Affected Country and is in violation of the self-quarantine requirement, how might I report this to DPH? Anyone eager to report any violations of the Connecticut Travel Advisory, together with the self-quarantine requirement, might both name 211 or full the web grievance kind, which is obtainable at dphsubmissions.ct.gov/TravelGrievanceForm.
26. What data do I must submit for a suspected violation of the self-quarantine requirement? To report a suspected violation, please full the web grievance kind, which is obtainable at dphsubmissions.ct.gov/TravelGrievanceForm. The on-line grievance kind requests that you just present the next data relating to the suspected violation:
• Contact data for the person suspected to be in violation:
◦ First and final identify
◦ Address (house residence)
◦ Phone/electronic mail (if recognized)
◦ Address (the place staying in Connecticut)
• Affected State or Affected Country from which the person traveled
• Was his or her size of keep in an Affected State or an Affected Country twenty-four (24) hours or longer? Yes or No
• Was his or her size of keep in Connecticut twenty-four (24) hours or longer? Yes or No
• Mode of entry into Connecticut (i.e. airplane, automobile, bus, prepare, boat)
• Approximate date of arrival in Connecticut
• Description of suspected violation (for instance, embrace data relating to the identify and site of a public place or office visited – identify and metropolis)
• Photos or different documentation you’ve got that will substantiate your declare
27. If I obtain a discover of civil penalty, is there any approach I can dispute or attraction the penalty? Any one who receives a discover of civil penalty might, inside ten (10) enterprise days of the date of the discover of civil penalty, request a listening to earlier than the Commissioner of Public Health to contest the penalty. Such listening to, if requested, might be held inside thirty (30) enterprise days of the Commissioner’s receipt of the request.
28.May I be topic to authorized ramifications apart from civil penalties if I don’t self-quarantine or full the Travel Health Form? Yes, chances are you’ll be topic to any current penalties that apply to violations of Executive Orders, together with financial penalties and attainable imprisonment.
Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Adjacent Affected States
29. How does it have an effect on Connecticut residents if a state bordering Connecticut is an Affected State? Any Connecticut resident traveling to an adjoining state that’s an Affected State who stays there for twenty-four (24) hours or longer should self-quarantine for ten (10) days when she or he arrives again in Connecticut. If his or her go to to the neighboring Affected State is lower than twenty-four (24) hours, the requirement to self-quarantine doesn’t apply.
30.If I’m a Connecticut resident who should go to an adjoining Affected State for work, how does this influence me? Any Connecticut resident who must journey to an adjoining Affected State for work is just not topic to the self-quarantine requirement so long as his or her time within the adjoining Affected State is lower than twenty-four (24) hours. Any Connecticut resident who qualifies as a vital employee (e.g., as designated by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) going to the bordering Affected State for work-related journey can be not topic to the self-quarantine requirement. Any Connecticut resident who commutes to an adjoining Affected State and is unable to telecommute, and can solely be within the Affected State for lower than twenty-four (24) hours, is strongly suggested to restrict all different contact in that state whereas there. Employers in adjoining Affected States can proceed to anticipate workers who’re Connecticut residents to come back to work as wanted, although telework choices are preferable if attainable.
31.If I’m a Connecticut resident who should go to an adjoining Affected State for work, are there precautions I ought to take? Yes. It is strongly inspired that you just telework if applicable and allowed by your employer. Further, it’s best to restrict your actions whereas in that state to your office solely and keep away from different public locations and occasions, if attainable.
32.Should I cancel my journey plans to an adjoining Affected State? What if I simply wish to go to the seaside for a day and never keep in a single day? Connecticut residents are strongly inspired to keep away from journey to Affected States. While traveling to the seaside for lower than a day in an adjoining Affected State doesn’t set off the self-quarantine requirement, it’s endorsed that you just not journey to that state throughout any interval when COVID-19 infections are excessive.
33.What does this imply for anyone traveling from an adjoining Affected State to Connecticut? Any vacationers who’ve spent twenty-four (24) hours or longer in an adjoining Affected State and plan on spending twenty-four (24) hours or longer in Connecticut should fill out the Travel Health Form and self-quarantine for ten (10) days whereas in Connecticut or for the length of their keep if shorter, except such traveler qualifies for an exemption from the requirement to self-quarantine.
34.If I dwell in an adjoining Affected State however work in Connecticut, can I nonetheless go to work? Yes. The self-quarantine requirement doesn’t apply to residents of adjoining Affected States who should come into Connecticut for work, as long as their keep in Connecticut is lower than twenty-four (24) hours. If a resident of an adjoining Affected State travels to Connecticut and spends twenty-four (24) hours or longer in Connecticut, the resident is an Affected Traveler and is required to finish the Travel Health Form and self-quarantine for a interval of ten (10) days from the time of final contact with such Affected State, for any portion of such ten (10) day interval they spend in Connecticut, or for the length of such particular person’s keep in Connecticut, whichever is shorter, except the particular person qualifies for an exemption from the requirement to self-quarantine. Connecticut employers can proceed to anticipate any workers from adjoining Affected States to come back to work as wanted, although telework choices are most popular if attainable. Any resident from an adjoining Affected State who’s unable to telecommute and is spending lower than twenty-four (24) hours in Connecticut can be strongly inspired to restrict all contacts whereas in Connecticut. Connecticut employers with workers who’re residents of adjoining Affected States ought to make each effort to offer telework choices or in any other case restrict worker time in Connecticut.
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