Is this accurate ??? Should this state only for visitors without the proper negative test results or something :thinking1:
from WIMCO
https://www.wimco.com/vacation-trav...-19-test-requirements-and-travel-information/
Effective January 21 – new regulation for arriving visitors
Upon arrival travelers are asked to sign a document that asks for their commitment to not frequent public areas for their first 7 days on the island, in particular restaurants, bars, boutiques, churches. During this time travelers may shop for groceries, arrange food delivery or pick-up, visit beaches, and walk around town as long as they are wearing a mask and practicing social distancing. On day 7 travelers are asked to get a Covid19 test if staying longer than a week. If this test is negative, travelers are free to enter restaurants, bars, boutiques, churches and all other public spaces.
It also states this above so...
St. Barths is open to visitors. To visit you will need to be tested for Covid19 using a PCR test, and provide proof of testing negative no more than three days before arrival. For people who have a negative test result in hand on arrival, there is no quarantine.
Is this accurate ??? Should this state only for visitors without the proper negative test results or something :thinking1:
Just my two cents... if you can come down please do. The island is wonderful, green and just being in the sun is uplifting. The restos are open and you can keep a safe distance.... Just noticed Nikki Beach is open today.
That's not what the rules say. I am not going to sign a form promising that I will avoid restaurants for 7 days (our trip was for 9) and then flout those promises. Call me Pollyanna but I ain't doin it. I was willing to jump thru many hoops for this. But this is the straw that has broken my back.
I do have another comment. Covid cases were spiking to the highest number in the USA in mid-December since Covid started...why did the St Barths government not have regulations such as these new ones in place THEN? Was it because they didn't want to miss out on all those beautiful high season tourism dollars???
There was talk somewhere here about some showing up on island without the proper test results (maybe on yachts) and that those individuals then could go to St Jean to be tested.Context: this is in a thread about getting tests done on the island (Covid testing in St. Jean) and clearly states for all persons needing a test in Saint Barth.
I just saw it in another threadBeing a limited tech nerd, I am unfortunately unable to figure out how to load Magras' 01/19 statement. What WIMCO sent you is a "word for word" on the request for commitment for inbound travelers to (observe prophylactic rules, not frequent shops, restaurants, churches, bars for first seven days and 7 day test) .....
Maybe someone else has access to the January 19 document and can post it?
Interpretation from Le Journal seems to imply that the 7-day "recommended" quarantine applies to travelers from Metropolitan France, and appears to be reciprocal to the rule in France itself for those arriving from St. Barts.
https://www.journaldesaintbarth.com...onditions-pour-se-deplacer--202101211300.html
Similar to the announcement that caused brief panic earlier this month that "only accepted RT-PCR tests would be permissible", which turned out to be a French law that didn't apply to those arriving from elsewhere, this announcement's lack of specificity is causing a lot of concern. I am guessing this will all be cleared up in a few days.
It seems quite unlikely that they would mandate all arriving passengers with a negative RT-PCR test to quarantine for 7-days. That will effectively terminate tourism on the island.