The Antigua & Barbuda Lodges and Tourism Association has known as on the federal government to mandate that only absolutely vaccinated vacationers be permitted to enter for stayover holidays, owing to a rise in Covid-19 bacterial infections in the region.
Vernon Jeffers, government chairman, stated, “Our aim is squarely on the defense of our workforce, their families and the sustainability of the sector. The hospitality business has taken a intense strike from the Covid-19 pandemic and, for the quick potential, the pandemic will carry on to trigger uncertainty in occupancy levels and sustained employment. We are in a complicated period contacting for some tricky but needed choices to be made.”
The affiliation is proposing that the vaccination mandate for arriving travellers 12 yrs and over acquire result Oct. 1, which would empower adequate detect of any changes to the recent travel rules.
At the moment all travelers should present a negative PCR take a look at result taken in just seven days of arrival.
The vaccine proposal by the association also calls for a negative PCR or quick antigen examination final result, but inside of within just three days of vacation, for all vaccinated vacationers.
If the federal government does connect with for a vaccine mandate, Antigua and Barbuda will be a part of numerous other Caribbean nations around the world that prohibit entry only to completely vaccinated vacationers, such as Anguilla, Grenada, St. Barts, St. Kitts and Nevis, Turks and Caicos (productive Sept. 1) and Trinidad and Tobago.