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Kauai sees spike in COVID-19 cases after allowing travel to resume

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Hawaii’s rural island of Kauai has seen a spike of COVID-19 cases since launching pre-travel testing to reignite the state’s decimated tourism industry.

Early and aggressive local measures coupled with a strictly enforced statewide travel quarantine kept the island’s 72,000 residents mostly healthy — with only 61 known coronavirus cases from March through September.

But on Oct. 15, the state allowed travel to partially resume Kauai then went from having no active infections at all in the first part of October to at least 84 new cases in the ensuing seven weeks.The surge seeded community transmission and led to the island's first — and so far only — COVID-19 death.

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