Hair Stylists and Tourism: What Honolulu Mayor Caldwell is planning?

How can the City and County of Honolulu make it more difficult for visitors to still arrive at Honolulu International Airport?

Honolulu Mayor Caldwell agreed with eTurboNews suggesting to have arriving passengers, locals, and visitors to be housed in approved accommodation away from Waikiki. The mayor, however, was not sure about the legality to force a person to stay somewhere for 14 days that s/he didn’t plan to stay.

Japan has a good solution: Cardboard boxes at Narita Airport.

The mayor was also concerned about visitors staying at vacation rentals and bed & breakfast during the quarantine period. He pledged to work on this problem and noted many such establishments may not be legal in the first place.

There was no feedback from Governor Ige if he was finally motivated enough to urge President Trump and federal authorities to restrict travel to the state for non-essential trips.

There was no feedback from Governor Ige yet to this question. The Governor also failed to respond to the same question by all Hawaii mayors and several State Senators concerned about the state still allowing hundreds of passengers to arrive.

The good news today was only 5 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in the last 24 hours and approximately 40% of those infected in Hawaii already recovered.

Visitors and locals will have to wait awhile to get to see a hairstylist or barber in Honolulu. Mayor Caldwell told journalists today making hairstylists’ essential means to add one more layer of danger to flattening the curve on COVID-19 in Hawaii.

The Mayor suggested requiring barbers to be tested before they were allowed to restart their services, but all of this will not happen at this time.

Mayor Caldwell and the Honolulu Police Chief, Susan Ballard, said there is no increase in crime during the COVID-19 lockdown. She also confirmed officers and detectives are prepared to deal with domestic violence. So far there was no increase.

The three-day curfew was a success, but Mayor Caldwell is not planning to repeat a curfew at this time.

HAWAII PASSENGER ARRIVALS BY AIR, APRIL 12, 2020

Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism:

INTERISLAND PASSENGERS FOR APRIL 10, 2020

LABORATORY TESTING DATA

31 test results were inconclusive

HAWAI‘I COVID-19 COUNTS AS OF 12:00 NOON, APRIL 13, 2020