Pa. health department removes five states from COVID-19 travel advisory list

PITTSBURGH — The Pa. Department of Health removed five states from its COVID-19 travel advisory list on Friday.

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If you have traveled, or plan to travel, to an area where there are high amounts of coronavirus cases, it is recommended that you stay at home for 14 days upon return to Pennsylvania. Those states include the following:

• Alabama
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Florida
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Kansas
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Nevada
• North Dakota
• Oklahoma
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas

The states that were removed are Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina, Utah and Wisconsin.

Since those states are no longer considered to be “hot spots,” the state health department said quarantining is not necessary after returning to Pennsylvania.

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