For the fourth straight week, Chicago has removed states and territories from its weekly COVID-19 travel advisory.
As cases continue to decline across the country, 16 states were removed from the list: Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming.
The city said that an additional eight states could be removed from the advisory next week if daily case rates remained below 15 per 100,000 residents.In order to be removed from the city's travel advisory, a state or territory's daily case rate must remain below 15 for two consecutive weeks. Since last week, the daily case rate for the U.S. dropped from 12.7 to 10.3. Illinois' daily cases rate fell from 11.8 last week to 9.6 and Chicago's dropped from 7.1 to 4.9, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health."For the first time in months there are now more states not on our COVID-19 Travel Advisory than there are on it," Arwady said in a statement.
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