The State has announced that the new online Safe Travels application is now mandatory for all travelers–effective today.
This new digital application will collect the required health and travel information for all passengers, both interisland and for those coming from out of state.
The application can be found at https://travel.hawaii.gov.
Travelers coming in from out of state will still have to fill out the Agriculture Declaration Form manually.
Travelers will still have their temperatures checked when they land in the state, either via the airport’s new mass thermal scanners or a hand-held thermal scanner. Anybody with symptoms of COVID-19 or a temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher will be given a secondary health screening.
This new online application will provide the State Department of Health (DOH) information about the traveler’s health. The information will also be used by agencies which will enforce the mandatory 14-day quarantine now in effect for all travelers coming into the state and for anybody traveling interisland to any of the neighbor islands (there is no interisland quarantine for people traveling from a neighbor island to O’ahu).
Each traveling adult must fill out the Safe Travels form. Adults may add minors to their form as well.
Travelers are encouraged to enter their information and trip details well in advance of their flight. Then 24 hours before departure, travelers should return to the site and fill out the health questionnaire. The health questionnaire is not made available to the traveler until 24 hours in advance.
According to the State, once their health information is entered, they should receive a QR code via email. The QR code on their mobile device or printed on paper is scanned by the airport screener upon arrival.
Sample QR Code:
Passengers must bring the following with them:
–the QR code they get when they fill out the form, either on their mobile device or printed on paper
–a valid government-issued photo identification
–a cell phone, charged and ready
–if you have an exemption from the 14-day quarantine, bring your letter or other documentation with you
**For a quarantine exemption request for Hawaii County, which must be requested 5 days in advance, click here.
The State says people without a cell phone will be assisted at the arriving airport, or may ask friends or relatives to be able to use their phone. All travelers MUST have an email address; anybody planning to travel must get one in advance of traveling. The new Safe Travels app will be used for people in quarantine to check in and confirm they are following quarantine. The State says the app does not allow tracking of the traveler to know where they are.
This video explains the new process:
