![]() David Ige, who joined the Honolulu Star-Advertiser's Spotlight Hawaii on Monday morning and held an afternoon news conference, said the state is testing the. But we’re hopeful that if we can start with … those vaccinated in the state, then that gives us additional time to … get into the national networks that … will be able to roll it out for trans-Pacific soon. 6Kauai began allowing trans-Pacific travelers to go through Safe Travels Hawaii on Monday, but no other changesincluding accepting a vaccine passport or lifting interisland quarantinesare expected until at least May. And so there may be some that may be more difficult to verify. ![]() The state plans to expand its inter-island vaccine passport once it can 'provide the same assurance of integrity on a. One of the challenges is that not every state implemented the vaccine record in the same way. Hawaii’s Vaccine Passport Launched This Week Heres What to Know. But we’re going to start with people vaccinated in the state of Hawaii first. “It’s a lot harder to verify vaccinations done in other states,” he said. Ige said implementation of vaccination verification procedures for interisland travelers would give the state more time to work on verification procedures for trans-Pacific arrivals - which have averaged about 20,000 a day for the past couple of weeks. “We realize that it would be a great opportunity for the local economy, especially for inter-county, and we do intend to implement something for inter-county first.”Ĭurrently, interisland travelers to Kauai, Maui and the Big Island must receive a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of departure or undergo a 10-day quarantine. So, we would like to verify with the state vaccination database that (someone) actually got the vaccine … and if we can do it electronically, that would really speed a lot of things. We’re really trying to automate as much as we can. ![]() “… Our contractor on the Safe Travels program is incorporating vaccinations into the program. “We want to make sure we have the systems in place,” the governor said. On Monday, the governor described the details of a digital verification process and setting up screening procedures at the state’s airports as “a huge logistics challenge.” Josh Green on April 12 said the state likely would have the vaccination verification program for interisland travelers in place on May 1, but Ige, the following day, wouldn’t commit to that date. “We’ll probably be having a public announcement (today)” about the so-called vaccine passport program, he said.
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