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Maine no closer to easing coronavirus-related travel restrictions

Maine no closer to easing coronavirus-related travel restrictions

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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Public health officials in Maine are continuing to monitor the spread of coronavirus in other states, and they are no closer to easing travel restrictions put in place because of the virus.

Maine requires travelers from other states to produce a negative coronavirus test or quarantine for two weeks.

It exempted New Hampshire and Vermont from those requirements in late June, and added Connecticut, New York and New Jersey to the exempt list in early July.

Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention director Nirav Shah said Tuesday the state recently reviewed case statistics in other states and “didn’t see anything that prompted us to move any states into the ‘can visit without negative test’ category.”

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