CHICAGO -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot this week added both Iowa and Oklahoma to the list of states from which people traveling to Chicago must quarantine for 14 days due to COVID-19, and signaled Wisconsin could be next.
When asked about adding Illinois' northern neighbor to the emergency travel order, Lightfoot said the city was "paying close attention" to its Midwest neighbors.
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"I don't want to speculate about what might happen, but we're, suffice it to say, we're paying very close attention everywhere around us, and particularly states in the Midwest that border Illinois in Chicago," Lightfoot said, according to our sister station NBC Chicago.
Currently, there are 17 states that are a part of Chicago's travel order: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah.
Though the order requires travelers to quarantine for 14 days, the Chicago Tribune notes health officials "have hardly any ability to monitor the movements of Chicagoans or visitors."
Earlier this week, Wisconsin's Department of Health Services announced the state had set new records for single-day coronavirus cases four out of the previous six days. On Wednesday, Wisconsin was added to the New England tri-state travel advisorydue to its infection rate, which includes New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.