Vermont once again hit a record low number of travelers able to come to the state under its travel restrictions, according to the latest report from the Department of Financial Regulation.
The state now allows only six counties outside of Vermont to travel here for leisure without completing its quarantine procedure. Four of those counties are in Maine. That leaves a total of roughly 300,000 people who are in the “green” zone, meaning they do not have any restrictions.
Those restrictions include all the counties on the border with Vermont, meaning visitors must quarantine for 14 days or get a negative test after a seven-day quarantine period.
The state has had its “green” counties slowly disappear in the months since it debuted the travel map in June, when 11.5 million people could travel without quarantine. The restrictions come at a time when the country is experiencing a rise in Covid cases across the Northeast, said Commissioner Michael Pieciak of the DFR.
Some experts have questioned the state’s methodology for calculating county-level case rates. It’s also unclear how many out-of-staters are complying with the restrictions, since the state has no enforcement in place beyond a self-certification of quarantine when staying at Vermont lodging.
If Vermont were judged by its own model, eight of its counties would fall in the “yellow” or “red” zone, according to the map.
—Erin Petenko
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