Last Updated on July 29, 2020, 2:58 AM AST by Anthony Morris
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that applications of 51,000 non-residents and thirty-one thousand residents and visitors have been processed using the Visit Jamaica and JamCOVID websites.
Holness said that around 61,300 people have arrived in Jamaica since the introduction of controlled re-entry, 21,300 of them are residents.
He added that additional 18,800 applications of people had been approved for travel, which includes 9,900 non-residents.
Holness said this as he made his contribution to the Sectoral Debate that this controlled entry process has served the country very well.
The Prime Minister said that the controlled re-entry process has certainly helped to manage the number of people who are coming in Jamaica.
Holness said in June that there was an average of five flights per day which carry 410 passengers per day.
For July, there have been 24 flights per day, and 1,700 passengers were arriving each day.
“We are projecting that a total of 55,000 passengers will arrive in Jamaica for the month of July, compared to 12,300 that arrived in June,” he said.
The Prime Minister of Jamaica said that the Government would continue the maintenance of the protocols which started on July 15.
These include that all the passengers would still be subject to risk assessment and health screening on arrival.
Also, visitors from areas declared which have been marked as high-risk areas such as Florida, Texas, New York, Arizona, who are registering on the Visit Jamaica website are required to upload a valid PCR test which shall not be more than ten days old, before they are approved for travel to Jamaica.
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