COVID-19 has devastated Hawaii's lei industry. Generations-old shops are clawing back.

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'This is Hawaii — the lei, the people,” said Milan Chun, 80, a third-generation lei maker who runs her late grandmother's stand near the Honolulu airport. “We have to really remember the Aloha Spirit.'

Anyone flying to Hawaii will be required to have a negative COVID-19 test result prior to their departure for the state, with the new rule going into effect two days before Thanksgiving, state officials announced Thursday. HONOLULU — Summer Campos and her husband, Carlos, braced themselves before going through their ledger.

Close to 40% of Hawaii's COVID 19-related deaths as of mid-January — 117 — occurred between July and September, according to an analysis of . The U.S. as a whole suffered nearly 80,000 fatalities during the same time period. The number of memorials skyrocketed, as did, it seems, the number of families ordering lei.

"It's been really slow," said Milan Chun, a third-generation lei maker who runs her late grandmother's stand near the Honolulu airport."Really slow." Lei culture descends from the Polynesians who settled in Hawaii hundreds of years ago. The practice of draping a flower garland around someone's neck to express gratitude or reverence or loveinto Hawaii's tourism economy in the 1920s, when sellers would greet visitors disembarking cruise ships and adorn them with the garlands. Still, the culture has remained just as — if not more — significant to locals, for whom lei serve as a token of affection and appreciation.

 

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