Hawaii Governor David Ige extended the state's mandatory 14-day quarantine for all arriving travelers on Wednesday in a bid to keep coronavirus cases in the islands low. 

Ige said the rule is being extended to the end of July as the state works to solidify a screening process that could soon allow travelers to return in some capacity. Officials said they are planning to install thermal screening stations and facial recognition technology at the airports by the end of the year. The technology would be used only to track people within the airport during the screening process, Ige said.

Hawaii has so far reported 653 COVID-19 cases and 17 deaths, the lowest in the nation. Ige enacted a mandatory self-quarantine for all arriving tourists and residents earlier in March. Violators of the quarantine rules have been arrested, including a resident who was found to have left her home after returning to Waikiki this week.

Officials said the state's inter-island quarantine rules will be lifted next week, but anyone with a temperature over 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) will not be allowed to fly.

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(Cover: A surfer walks on a sparsely populated Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 5, 2020. /AP)