Traveling to Maine? Latest guidelines on testing and quarantining.
The rules for who needs to get tested for COVID 19 and stay quarantined while awaiting results keep shifting. Here is the latest update! These rules apply both to Mainers who have traveled out of state and are returning home, and to visitors to the state. At this time, any COVID 19 test can be used for testing.
Effective May 1, 2021:
No one needs to be tested if traveling domestically UNLESS you are traveling from a state that is on an exclusion list, to be created by the Maine CDC, based on high levels of circulating COVID 19 variants. Currently, there are no states on the exclusion list (but always check https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/epi/airborne/coronavirus/travel.shtml for the latest updates).
For international travelers entering Maine, there is no need to quarantine if you are fully vaccinated. If you are not fully vaccinated, then you must quarantine for 7 days upon entering Maine AND get a COVID-19 molecular or antigen test 3 - 5 days after arrival in the US. If you are positive, you must isolate. If you are negative, then your quarantine ends at 7 days.
COVID 19 testing is available through Personalized Pediatrics of Maine. For more information, contact doc@mainepeds.com
Link to the Visit Maine website for the latest updates and a list of alternative testing facilities:
https://www.visitmaine.net/page/234/covid-19
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