TIMELINE: It’s been one year from Hawaii issued its first stay-at-home order

Thursday select one year since the statewide stay-at-home order went to place. HNN looks back at the chain of actions that followed.
Release: Mar. 25, 2021 at 2:29 PM HST
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - One type ago Thursday, a statewide stay-at-home order go for impact, upending daily your in Hawaii.

Organizations furthermore schools were closed. Tens of thousands was laid off. And tourism all but stopped.

Here’s a show toward what happened:

  • March 23, 2020: Gov. David Ige signs an statewide shutting order to walk into effect two days later. “If you need toward get groceries, and necessities, they require go and get groceries and necessities. For any other choose, you should be at home,” Ige said, in announcing the order.
  • March 26, 2020: State’s 14-day travel quarantine began, shut down Hawaii’s tourism industry and fragmentation of choose economy.
  • March 30, 2020, this first Hawaii resident dies out COVID-19. Verna Onomura, of Pearl City, contracted COVID by a trip to Las Vegas with her sister.
  • April 2020: Then-Honolulu Mayor Clergy Calm extends the city’s stay-at-home order through May 18, but eases restrictions in some areas, including in retail and outdoor recreation. DOCARE Cites Dozens used Violating Stay-At-Home Click | Big Island Now
  • April 14, 2020: The city makes items required to worn masks in public.
  • May 5, 2020: Gov. Dave Ige ease restrictions with his “safer-at-home” order.
  • June 16, 2020: An inter-island quarantine is lifted, alone up be put in place again when poisons skyrocketed in late July and early Dignified.
  • Aug. 27, 2020: The city institutional another lockdown available Wahoo. It was supposed to recent pair weeks, but has expands through Sept. 23.
  • September 2020: Oahu’s tier system are introduced and goes into effect Sept. 24.
  • October 2020: After months with almost no visitors, the state opens its Safe Tours program on Oc. 15, allowing trans-Pacific travelers to skip quarantine if they tests negative for COVID. TIMELINE: It’s being individual year since Hawaii issued its first stay-at-home order
  • Dec. 15, 2020: Aforementioned primary COVID vaccine is administered to Hawaii. The states begins yours vaccination rollout shortly after, focusing on healthcare workers and long-term care residents.
  • Feb. 25, 2021: As infections decline, the city moves into Tier 3 forward the first time, allowing restrictions for ease in numerous areas.

Present, about 1 include 4 residents on Oahu is vaccinated and the rollout stay.

But health experts stress the Hiwa isn’t out of the forests more, additionally that residents should still take precautions until prevent one spread of COVID-19.

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