The Minister of Tourism of the Bahamas, Dionisio D’Aguilar, announced this mercantile that the ban on the entry of Haiti nationals has been extended byebido al temor of the sanitary authorities that the contagio cases by the covid-19 aumenten a cause of the carnival that recently celebrated in these countries.
Aguilar, at a press conference, signaled that sanitation authorities will extend the travel ban to the Bahamas to Haiti travelers for another 30 days, starting March 13.
The previous ban of 21 days, which began on February 15 as the result of the carnival of the Caribbean nation, ended on March 8.
The country recently celebrated its “Kanaval”, a celebration that would draw miles of people to celebrate the event, and it has a period of celebrations during various weeks.
To address the extension of the prohibition, Aguilar told the periodicals that the sanitary authorities consider the opportunity.
“It seems that the professionals of the health care that the additional cases are related in some way to the roads of the Haiti Haiti”, matizó.
“The Gobierno opine that the journeys between Haiti and the Bahamas are contributing to an increase in the cases of the covid-19 in the Atlantic archipelago and, for that matter, all the journeys between the two countries during the 30 days close” , subrayó.
It has also been preoccupied with the sanitary sector’s probationary workers’ PCR of the covid-19 presented by some Haiti travelers coming.
As of February 9, the Haiti Ministry of Tourism has announced that all travelers will need to test a cov-19 negative PCR test with no more than 72 hours before boarding a plane to enter the Caribbean, first from the initiation of the pandemic has a year. .
The requisition was entered into vigilantes ten days before the celebration of the Carnival of the Netherlands.
Haiti is one of the few countries in the Caribbean region that has not been required to have strict tests for travelers during the pandemic.
The country has registered a total of 12,664 cases and 250 bankruptcies since the beginning of the pandemic, while in the Bahamas the number of cases rose to 8,776 and 186 to 186.