The Bahamas Closes Its Borders to US Travelers
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The Bahamas reopened tourism to all on July 1, however, due to the amount of new COVID-19 cases The Bahamas has made the call to close its airports and seaports to passengers coming from the United States.
The change will go into effect starting at midnight on Wednesday, July 22.
In a nationwide address made earlier today, the Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis stated that the islands’ national carrier, Bahamasair, will be discontinuing all outbound flights to the U.S. immediately, reported the Miami Herald .
Other outgoing commercial flights, however, will still be allowed to repatriate U.S. visitors who’d been scheduled to leave The Bahamas after July 22.
Bahamian residents and visitors, says the official website , will still be permitted to enter the islands when arriving by private international flights and charters, yachts and pleasure craft.
Minnis, who has also taken on the role of acting health minister since May, remarked: “Regrettably, the situation here at home has already deteriorated since we began the reopening of our domestic economy. It has deteriorated at an exponential rate since we reopened our international borders.”
Visitors originating from Canada, the United Kingdom and the European Union will still be welcomed, as long as they fulfill a few requirements. Prior to departure, foreign travelers must fill out an online Health Visa form , which may take up to 72 hours to process, and so should be submitted within an adequate time frame.
Approved Health Visas are issued a “green” confirmation, proof of which will need to be shown at airport check-in and upon arrival in the country.
They’ll also need to provide the negative results of a COVID-19 PCR Test, from an approved lab and drawn no more than ten days prior to the date of their intended arrival in The Bahamas (children under the age of ten are exempted).
Test results will need to be uploaded via the Health Visa portal, as well as presented in person upon arrival at the airport, where they will also be temperature-screened.
Everyone is required to wear masks during travel and throughout the entry process, and anyone displaying symptoms of the virus will be transferred by Bahamian health personnel for further evaluation, testing and possible quarantine. No self-quarantine period is required for those who pass their health checks and are granted entry into The Bahamas.
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Wow.... fifty years ago when we embraced science, we could go to the moon.
Today, under Trump's leadership and the rejection of science by his followers, we can't even go to the Bahamas......
And you think Biden would be an improvement.
Give us 5 reasons why Biden would be better at solving this crisis than Trump.
I'm gonna stick with a winner, we don't need any more stinkin' anarchy and left wing lunacy in this country than we already have.
So 140,000 dead Americans that happened on Trump's watch.....(and counting...!) is your idea of winning?
Again.... remind me Greg, how many died due to Ebola and H1N1 while Biden was in office?
Here.... I'll help...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates there were 60.8 million cases, 274,000 hospitalizations, and 12,469 deaths in the United States due to the virus. [117]
If you think tRump is a winner, I'd hate to see your definition of a loser.
nor Europe:
EU Confirms Ban On American Travelers As US Scrambles To Contain Coronavirus
THE EU IS EASING RESTRICTIONS TO REJUVENATE TOURISM
Citizens from 14 nations, including Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and China — subject to a pending reciprocal agreement — will all be allowed entry for the first time since March as the EU attempts to rejuvenate the continent’s vital tourism industry.
Despite the pressing economic need, though, the EU has judged that allowing US travelers back in is too risky. .
President Trump repeatedly downplayed the severity of the pandemic, claiming in February, for example, that the virus was “very much under control”; that the US would “pretty soon” have just a handful of cases; and that the disease would disappear “like a miracle.”
Months later, the US now has more than 2.5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 126,000 deaths, making it the worst-hit nation in the world . . . ( Read it all)
And Europe is even worse!
Having been to many countries in the Europe you aren't missing anything. Europe is a bore. Not much to do but look at old tourist sites, old museums,old castles and other very old buildings (most of which are in a state of disrepair due to their Socialist governments), very old towns, boring scenery etc--, culturally inadequate for any style of travel!!!