CT Streamlines, Softens, Coronavirus Travel Restrictions

CONNECTICUT — The state will no longer be cherry-picking regions by coronavirus case rate each week to determine who can enter without a period of quarantine. Gov. Ned Lamont signed an executive order on Friday that directs everyone from any location, foreign or domestic, to self-quarantine and complete the Connecticut Travel Health Form.

There are several notable exceptions to the new regulations.

Travelers from neighboring states New York, Rhode Island and New Jersey get a pass, as do essential workers traveling for work-related purposes.

The regulations also do not apply to travelers who have had a negative test for COVID-19 in the 72 hours prior to their arrival in Connecticut, or subsequent to their arrival in Connecticut, and have submitted their negative test result to the commissioner of the Department of Public Health.

Also exempt from the new rules are travelers who have tested positive and recovered within 90 days from having to quarantine, and those who test positive but have been asymptomatic for 10 days.

Lamont's latest executive order goes into effect one minute after midnight Saturday morning.

"Given the current high rates of COVID-19 throughout the United States and internationally, Connecticut continues to strongly discourage all nonessential, interstate travel at this time as the risks are too severe," Lamont said Friday.

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