Following a reassessment of market circumstances, the federal government of Saint Lucia will introduce a number of new and up to date protocols for arrivals from July ninth.
Travellers might be required to acquire a destructive PCR (polymerised chain response) check inside seven days of journey except they’re arriving from international locations within the journey bubble designated by the federal government of Saint Lucia.
Guests touring solely from locations which have zero or a low occasion of Covid-19 instances might be exempt from the seven-day pre-testing requirement.
These locations at present embrace Antigua, Barbuda, Aruba, Anguilla, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Martin, Trinidad and Tobago and Turks and Caicos.
Guests with a journey historical past from these areas within the final 14-days will even be exempt from quarantine.
All guests and returning residents to Saint Lucia should full a pre-arrival registration kind previous to landing.
Guests are suggested to move over to the official website and click on on the Covid-19 web page to discover a hyperlink to the shape.
They have to fill out particulars together with proof of destructive PCR testing and point out which Covid-19 Licensed lodge they are going to be staying in.
All returning Saint Lucia residents and residents should additionally full the pre-arrival registration kind as above.
On arrival, they’re required to quarantine for 14-days at a pre-approved residence quarantine handle, authorities operated quarantine facility or a Covid-19 licensed property.
Pre-testing previous to journey is now obligatory.
Guests should present a destructive check outcome taken seven days or much less earlier than journey to Saint Lucia.
All arriving passengers might be screened, together with temperature checks, on the airport.
Any symptomatic passengers might be remoted and examined.
They are going to be required to stay in quarantine/isolation at their lodge or authorities operated quarantine facility till the check result’s obtained.
If the check is optimistic, they are going to be transferred to a therapy facility till they obtain two destructive check outcomes and are clinically steady.
Passengers arriving with proof of a destructive PCR check could also be exempt from on-island testing and advance via immigration, baggage declare, customs and arrivals for transportation to their Covid-19 licensed lodge, pre-approved residence quarantine facility or authorities operated quarantine facility.
Anybody arriving with out proof of a destructive PCR check might be topic to speedy isolation and testing with potential quarantine or therapy ought to a passenger check optimistic – at their very own value.
Extra Data
For extra details about Saint Lucia’s Covid-19 response, all protocols and particulars of necessities previous to entry, please go to the official website.
