Oakland Airport to offer free COVID testing for Hawaii-bound passengers

Passengers who prove they have a negative COVID test within 72 hours of departure can forgo the 14-day quarantine.

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October 1, 2020

A view of the turquoise beach in Waikiki

Image by Colton Jones via Unsplash.

Oakland International Airport announced that it will begin offering free COVID tests for employees and passengers going to Hawaii. The testing begins October 6. The pre-test travel program to Hawaii begins October 15, 2020. Passengers who prove they have a negative COVID test within 72 hours of departure can forgo the 14-day quarantine.

For more information, visit the Port of Oakland.

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Momo Chang

Momo Chang is a freelance journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Senior Editor at Civil Eats. She served program alumni as the Oakland Voices Co-Director from 2019 to 2024. Her work focuses on healthcare, immigration, education, Asian American communities, food and culture. She is a former staff writer at the Oakland Tribune. Momo has received journalism awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for investigative reporting and the Asian American Journalists Association, among others. Her work has appeared in the East Bay Express, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, and The New York Times. Momo is primarily a print journalist who also produces audio and visual stories for documentary film and radio. She is a Senior Contributing Editor for Hyphen and formerly the Content Manager at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).