Costa Rica is re-opening its borders to UK travellers from this Saturday, following their almost four-month closure as a result of Covid-19 pandemic.
The UK has been included in Costa Rica’s record of low-risk nations along with Canada and people nations from the EU and Schengen space.
A gradual revival of the tourism trade and safeguarding sanitary measures is the target of the phased re-opening to worldwide industrial flights.
Costa Rica’s new tourism minister, Gustavo Segura, mentioned: “We anticipate to obtain fewer than 5 industrial flights per week on the outset.
“Nonetheless, these are drops of hope for greater than 600,000 individuals who instantly or not directly rely on the tourism trade.”
To permit guests to enter Costa Rica, a unfavorable results of the PCR Covid-19 take a look at will likely be necessary within the 48 hours previous to the journey.
On arrival, guests might want to full a digital epidemiological type and buy journey insurance coverage that covers lodging in case of quarantine and medical bills for acute sickness.
Costa Rica’s two worldwide airports, Juan Santamaría in San José and Daniel Oduber in Liberia, have additionally added new well being measures for all passengers arriving into the nation.
Costa Rica obtained 78,562 guests from the UK in 2019.
