Another major change has been made to travel restrictions between New England states.
Maine Governor Janet Mills announced travelers from Massachusetts will be allowed to visit the state without needing to undergo testing or quarantine, WCVB reports.
As of Friday (March 5), Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont residents are allowed to travel to Maine without restrictions. Gov. Mills' decision comes after other New England states announced reductions to reported COVID-19 cases.
Maine now joins New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island as states where residents are approved to travel to Massachusetts without restrictions. Residents from Vermont can also travel to the Bay State without quarantining if they've already been fully vaccinated.
However, Massachusetts residents must still go into a 10-day quarantine or provide a negative test when returning from these states.
The Bay State is also currently on the quarantine travel list for neighboring Connecticut.
"The issue really isn't about personal safety at this point, it's about overall public health," said Tufts Medical Center Epidemiologist Dr. Shira Doron via WCVB. "The CDC continues to say people should simply not travel. We don't want to be moving virus around the country and around the world and we certainly don't want to be moving these new variants around the country and around the world."
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