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Massachusetts COVID-19 Order No. 45 - Mandatory Quarantine Order for Outside Travelers

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Title (Dublin Core)

Massachusetts COVID-19 Order No. 45 - Mandatory Quarantine Order for Outside Travelers

Description (Dublin Core)

Governor Charles Baker issued this executive order making 14-day quarantines for out-of-state travelers mandatory on July 24, 2020, in a departure from the advisory "order" declared in March asking travelers to either quarantine or avoid the commonwealth all together. This order exempts seven Northeastern states whose COVID levels had been deemed "low-risk," but required all out-of-state travelers from the remaining 43 states, and returning residents, to self-isolate or obtain a negative test result 72 hours prior to arrival. Failure to meet these guidelines carried with it a penalty of a $500/day fine; a feature that was absent from the earlier travel advisory guidelines. With Massachusetts having seen improvement from the springtime surge that left tens of thousands of residents infected and over 8,000 dead, the Commonwealth sought to stay ahead of the virus curve and squelch an expected resurgence, as tens of thousands of returning students from across the country prepared to descend upon greater Boston colleges and universities in the fall.

Date (Dublin Core)

July 24, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Office of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Aaron Peterka

Partner (Dublin Core)

Northeastern University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.mass.gov/doc/july-24-2020-travel-order-pdf/download
https://web.archive.org/web/20231018225824/https://www.mass.gov/doc/july-24-2020-travel-order-pdf/download

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Government State
English Politics
English Travel

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

executive orders
Massachusetts
Charles Baker
travel restrictions
quarantine

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/05/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/18/2020
10/18/2023

Item sets

Covid 19
Greater Boston

This item was submitted on August 5, 2020 by Aaron Peterka using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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