UPDATES THAT A FEW PASSENGERS WERE ALLOWED OFF THE SHIP FRIDAY - The Maasdam, operated by Holland America Line, is docked in Honolulu Harbor, for a re-supply Friday, March 20, 2020, in Honolulu. Six Hawaii residents were allowed to leave the cruise ship and two other U.S. citizens were allowed to disembark for medical reasons. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

UPDATES THAT A FEW PASSENGERS WERE ALLOWED OFF THE SHIP FRIDAY - The Maasdam, operated by Holland America Line, is docked in Honolulu Harbor, for a re-supply Friday, March 20, 2020, in Honolulu. Six Hawaii residents were allowed to leave the cruise ship and two other U.S. citizens were allowed to disembark for medical reasons. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

HONOLULU (AP) — Two people who haven’t traveled outside Hawaii and haven’t had any contact with people who have traveled tested positive for the coronavirus, authorities said Friday as they announced the number of people with the disease has risen to 37.

Until Friday, all those who tested positive had traveled out of state or had close contact with someone who did. The two new cases, both on Oahu, indicates the virus is now circulating in Hawaii or that there is local community transmission, officials said.

“It’s beginning, it’s started,” said Bruce Anderson, the director of the state Department of Health. The two non-travel cases are not connected to each other, said Dr. Sarah Park, the state’s epidemiologist.

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The numbers came as a growing number of leaders urged Gov. David Ige to take a tougher stance on travelers to prevent the spread of the disease.

The governor earlier this week asked travelers to postpone their vacations for the next 30 days.

But House Speaker Scott Saiki, Lt. Gov. Josh Green, a Senate special committee on the virus and the Honolulu City Council have all called on Ige to impose a two-week quarantine on arriving passengers.

Asked if the governor agreed with these recommendations, Ige’s spokeswoman Cindy McMillan said the governor wasn’t disclosing details at this time.

“The steps we have taken so far have worked to protect the health and safety of our community. I am confident that the next steps that we are announcing soon will be effective, well-designed, and enhance our ability to deal with this threat as well as the economic impact it is,” Ige later said in a statement.

Saiki also called for “an immediate statewide shutdown” for the next 15 days.

The Honolulu City Council added the governor should order the Hawaii Tourism Authority and travel industry to immediately halt advertising campaigns luring travelers with discounted rates.

Ige has directed bars and clubs to close and for restaurants to only serve takeout or delivery meals. State and county officials have closed parks. Popular visitor destinations like the USS Arizona and Iolani Palace have closed.

Other states, including California, New York and Illinois, have ordered people to stay at home except to get essentials.

In Waikiki, the 818-room Hale Koa Hotel said it will close for at least the next few weeks in response to the coronavirus. There have been no reported cases of the disease at the hotel, which is operated by the U.S. military for service members, veterans and their families.

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At Honolulu Harbor, six Hawaii residents were allowed to leave a cruise ship that arrived Friday after being turned away from other ports.

Hawaii officials previously said the 842 passengers on Holland America Line’s Maasdam cruise ship would be allowed to disembark and catch flights home.

Some in Hawaii had called for protests to block cruise ship passengers from disembarking.

The state reversed course and later said the ship would only be allowed to re-fuel and re-supply in Honolulu.

The Harbors Division of the state Department of Transportation will only allow Hawaii residents to disembark cruise ships, according to the Senate Special Committee on COVID-19.

A Colorado woman with a fractured leg and her husband were also allowed to disembark the Maasdam with the Hawaii residents, officials said. They are being directed to self-quarantine.

There are no cases of coronavirus on the ship, officials and the cruise line have said.

Another cruise ship with no coronavirus cases that’s been turned away by other ports, the Norwegian Jewel, is expected to arrive to Honolulu Sunday with about 1,700 passengers. There are about 15 Hawaii residents on that ship and they will also be directed to self-quarantine, said Tim Sakahara, a spokesman for the state Department of Transportation.

Jewel passenger Paulette Stathakos, 72, who lives in Oahu’s Ko Olina resort, said she’s relieved she’ll finally get to go home. She said she hasn’t walked on land since Fiji about two weeks ago.

“I am happy. Oh, my God,” she said Friday from the ship. “I thought we were not going to be able to disembark in Honolulu.”

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This story has been corrected to say that two of Hawaii’s positive cases were unrelated to travel.