Texas Expands Self-Quarantine Orders for Travellers by Coming Into Texas from Covid-19 Hotspots in Louisiana, Washington, and California and select Cities

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has extended his two-weeks self-quarantine executive order to include travelers coming into Texas from the entire state of Louisiana by car or by air.

Abbott has also expanded the order to include two-week self-quarantine for travelers entering Texas by air from the states of Washington and California and the cities of Miami, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, Detroit, Michigan, and Chicago, Illinois.

The move is intended to curb the spread of Covid-19 by quarantining people traveling into the state from some hot-spots in the country. Gov. Abbott announced the new executive orders during a press conference televised on the Internet by local TV stations Sunday afternoon.

Last week, Gov. Abbott issued an executive order requiring people traveling by air into Texas from the Tri-State New York metropolitan area including New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and the City of New Orleans to self-quarantine for two weeks.

Gov. Abbott also gave an overview of how the state is preparing for a worst-case scenario of a major onslaught of Covid-19 patients to the state’s hospitals.