Saint Lucia Launches Up to date Journey Protocols Caribbean Journal

Saint Lucia’s govt has revealed a improve to a single of its main arrival protocols for tourists, Caribbean Journal has learned. 

The island will quickly demand all incoming site visitors to acquire a adverse PCR exam 5 days right before arrival in the region. 

That is a slight tightening of an before plan that had needed PCR assessments within 7 times before arrival. 

The new protocol will just take impact on Feb. 10, tourism officials told Caribbean Journal. 

“In purchase to co-exist with Covid, we must regularly examine our basic safety and travel protocols. In thanks thing to consider of all variables impacting the overall health of Saint Lucian citizens and worldwide readers, we are tightening testing protocols dependent on our latest ailments,” stated Saint Lucia Tourism Minister Dominic Fedee. 

Saint Lucia was just one of the 1st Caribbean places to reopen amid the pandemic when it did so in the 1st 7 days of June. 

Its reopening has been held up as a model for tourism reopenings in the wider region.

The destination’s tourism reopening consists of the wide greater part of its resorts and resorts. 

It need to also be observed that the new CDC mandate needs all tourists returning to the United States to present evidence of a damaging PCR check taken and received within 72 hrs in advance of coming back to the United States. 

Saint Lucia has currently expanded its tests capacity island-broad to assist tourists comply. 

You can come across additional on the country’s travel protocols below. 

— CJ