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CABINET NOTES:\u00a0<\/strong>The Cabinet invited the Chief Medical Officer and the Head of the Sir Lester Bird Mount St. John Medical Center Laboratory to the meeting in order to have the officials address a further loosening and tightening of the controls regarding visitors and returning residents entering Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>

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The gazetted regulations currently call for a PCR Test, administered no more than seven days before getting on board the aircraft heading for Antigua.<\/p>\n

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For those who are fully vaccinated \u2014 meaning, those who have taken the two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, or the single dose in the case of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine\u2013entry into Antigua and Barbuda ought to be made easier.<\/p>

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However, because of the new strains of the virus that are more easily transmissible, the number of days for which the PCR test is to be administered prior to travel is reduced to three.<\/p>

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This requirement will be made effective on June 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

The same three-day rule will apply to those who are not fully vaccinated, or those who have not been vaccinated at all.<\/p>

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Upon presenting themselves to the Quarantine Authority at the V.C. Bird Airport, a PCR Test will be administered at that point of entry. Those who are visitors will be dispatched to their reserved place at a biosecure space at one of the hotels that had been certified by the Central Board of Health; those who are residents and have been fully vaccinated will be allowed to return to their homes.<\/p>\n

Other arriving passengers\u2013who are not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated at all\u2013will be dispatched to either the Government Quarantine Center, or to their homes depending upon the conditions at the private residences.<\/p>

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Those who are fully vaccinated will then have their airport test results revealed in 48 hours and be allowed to end their quarantine immediately, if the results are negative; those whose test results are positive will be required to spend 14 days in quarantine and be tested a second time before their release on the 14th day.<\/p>

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Those who are not fully vaccinated or who have had no vaccinations administered will also have their test results revealed within five days, and may be allowed to end their quarantine within seven days, following arrival, if the results are negative. Arriving passengers may pay for the tests in advance.<\/p>\n

The Cabinet encourages every adult in every household to get fully vaccinated and to do so certainly before they travel away from Antigua and Barbuda. The Cabinet reminds that many of the destinations served by departing aircraft will shortly require all visitors to those cities and countries to which the aircraft fly \u00a0to be fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n

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