Last Updated on August 11, 2020, 10:48 AM AST by Anthony Morris
As St Kitts and Nevis gets ready to resume its international borders every single approaching traveler must present a negative RT-PCR (COVID-19) Test report 72 hours before arriving into the Federation.
“Effective on Monday, August 10, 2020, every single arriving traveller into St. Kitts and Nevis must give a negative RT PCR test 72 hours preceding reaching to St Kitts and Nevis,” said Abdias Samuel, Chair of the COVID-19 National Task Force during the August 08 briefing of the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC).
All test reports must be presented to the Office of the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Hazel Laws. The email address is hazel.laws@gov.kn.
Samuel stated that the SKN authorities keep on guaranteeing that the borders are appropriately figured out how to shield residents and inhabitants from the spread of the coronavirus.
“We keep on controlling our borders, our borders are shut. Be that as it may, we have said we are going in stages whereby we began with the arrangement of our nationals, at that point, we moved onto our inhabitants. From occupants, we realize we have various people who are working in St Kitts and Nevis, and they are adding to our monetary exercises; consequently, we permitted them likewise to return,” he included.
People who are married to citizens of St. Kitts and Nevis, businesspeople, just as students getting an education on the island were likewise permitted to return.
“We are slowly permitting these exercises to occur under a very controlled measure,” said Samuel.
He stated about an ongoing occurrence where a vessel involved by one individual went from St. Martin on its approach to Guadeloupe however chose to enter St. Kitts and Nevis’ shut borders and billet at Oualie where the individual had the option to buy things at the eatery, utilized the office washrooms before being captured.
“This is the reason, since we don’t have a COVID-19 case in St. Kitts and Nevis, we have to in any case be cautious. It is basic. This is the reason each day we get up and proceed with the battle. I am engaging the overall population to comprehend what we are attempting to do to ensure you and your employments and I am requesting that you stay careful,” said Samuel.
He emphasized that people should be very cautious on the grounds that once the borders resume coronavirus cases are certain to come, and as long as we don’t assemble that flexibility before such time, the number of inhabitants in St. Kitts and Nevis can be antagonistically influenced.
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