Visitors to St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be expected to follow all of the country’s COVID-19 travel protocols, even if they have taken one of the recently developed COVID-19 vaccines. This is according to Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Simone Keizer Beache (CMO).
“This morning I was hearing some additional news about one of the vaccines being found to probably have some properties which would decrease the likelihood of you actually getting COVID.
The vaccines that are being produced now, the main effect is reduced severity of the illness you will have. So, you can have the vaccine but you can still have the virus.
So for now I think our recommendation would be that we would still want to do the testing, because remember the testing is looking for the actual viral particles. For now I think you would still have to have level of testing and quarantine.” The CMO said.
St Vincent and the Grenadines will receive COVID-19 vaccines free of cost for the immunisation of about 20 per cent of its population, when the vaccines become available.
This is being facilitated through the global COVAX facility, which aims to provide equitable access and affordable options for all participating countries to access the vaccines.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines has recorded a total of 107 COVID-19 cases, 86 of which have recovered. There are 21 active COVID-19 cases imported from high-risk countries.
