Hawaii to require travelers have COVID booster shot to be 'fully vaccinated'

Hawaii to require visitors to the state receive a COVID-19 vaccine booster if they want to skip quarantine.

Hawaii will require visitors to the state to have received a COVID-19 vaccine booster if they want to skip quarantine.

Currently, under the rules of the state's "Safe Travels" program, travelers who don't want to quarantine for five days must either be fully vaccinated -- meaning two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine or one shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine -- or have a negative COVID-19 test within one day of travel

However, the program is changing the definition of "fully vaccinated" to include booster shots, Gov. David Ige announced at a news conference last week.

This means fully vaccinated travelers who haven't received a booster shot will have to quarantine in Hawaii for five days.