yellow state travel guidance

orange state travel guidance

• No need to quarantine or test

• Maintain strict masking and social distancing behaviors

• The following applies to EVERYONE (including adults) that travel - any time an orange state is your final destination, even if you are there for less than 24 hours:

  • Option A

• • • Obtain a negative COVID-19 PCR test result prior to or after arriving in Cook County (tests cannot be taken more than 72 hours prior to your return).

      • If you are in an orange state for fewer than 72 hours, you must take a test within 72 hours of returning to Cook County.

      • The test cannot be taken in Cook County prior to your travel.

      • If you arrive in Cook County and are still waiting for the test result, you must quarantine until you receive it.

      • Please note: You do not need to provide evidence of a negative PCR test result to D39, but please keep those results available in case they are requested.

• • Option B

    • Quarantine for a 10-day period once you return to Cook County. Your return day is considered "Day Zero."

• • Option C (not applicable for students)

    • Be fully vaccinated, maintain strict masking and physical distancing, and not have any COVID-19 symptoms. Fully vaccinated is defined as two weeks after the second dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine or two weeks after one dose of a single-dose vaccine.

  • Note: If anyone traveling has tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 90 days, they are exempt from the domestic travel order. For prior COVID-19 infection – you must have completed your 10-day isolation (from start of symptoms and/or positive test), have a documented positive test, and remain asymptomatic during your travel.