With the number of positive COVID-19 cases growing in Wisconsin, the state will be added to Chicago's emergency travel order list later this week, according to comments from Mayor Lori Lightfoot at a news conference Monday.
Chicago issued an emergency travel order in early July that requires anyone traveling or returning to the city from one of currently 18 states to self-isolate for 14 days upon their arrival. All of the listed states are experiencing significant community coronavirus spread.
"What we're seeing is cities and towns, particularly across the South through the Southwest and on to California, really having significant struggles now because many of those communities took a different approach to the one Chicago took," Lightfoot said at Monday's news conference. "We're also seeing an increase in states around us. Wisconsin, for example, is going to go on our quarantine list later this week."
Essential workers are not included in this travel order, but Chicagoans traveling to Wisconsin are subject to quarantine rules once they return to the city.
The city reviews COVID-19 case data weekly, and it officially modifies the list of states every Tuesday based on new data. Any changes to the list take effect three days later, on the following Friday.
Chicago's order adds a state to the list if that state exceeds 15 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents per day over a seven-day rolling average.
As of Monday, Wisconsin's seven-day rolling average is around 15.7 new cases per 100,000 state residents. There have been 49,417 total confirmed cases statewide, and 893 people have died.
Chicago's quarantine mandate resembles similar orders in the states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. After Wisconsin and two other Midwestern states earned a spot on those Northeastern travel lists two weeks ago, Lightfoot said she was "paying very close attention" to Illinois' neighbors and their coronavirus cases.
The city is watching other neighboring states to see if they meet the standard for being added to the list, Lightfoot added. While Wisconsin now meets that metric, she said, Indiana — which was added to New York's order last week — does not, and it has yet to be added to the city's order for that reason.
According to the City of Chicago's website, people who violate the order are subject to fines of $100 to $500 per day, up to $7,000.
As of Monday, no one has incurred a fine for noncompliance with the order, Lightfoot said at the news conference. Still, she said the purpose of the order is to "raise people's consciousness" about the risk of virus transmission, which the city has done through weekly announcements and reminders to travelers at airports and train stations.
"This has really got to be about not just fining people into compliance," she said, "but about educating people to understand the risk factors that are out there and the risks that they're taking for their own health, but the health of every single other person that they come into contact with."
Chicago has seen 59,160 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 2,754 deaths as of Monday, according to city data. As of last Tuesday, there were approximately 8.5 new cases per 100,000 Chicago residents on a seven-day rolling average.
Contact Asha Prihar at aprihar@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @AshaPrihar.
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