Tourism News

As of the 15th of June 2020, the country of Jamaica has formally reopened its borders to international travel. The country has set in place different protocols to ensure the safety of not only civilians but the tourists that visit the island as well. Travelers will be subject to temperature checks, if it so happens that a traveler has a high temperature they will be subjected to additional testing and further screening. If a traveler is displaying symptoms of the Covid-19 virus they will be quarantined immediately these protocols have been set in place to prevent the rise of the Covid-19 cases in the island.

The Corona Virus at its founding in Wuhan, China was mainly scoffed at by the majority of the populous in Jamaica however since its arrival on Jamaican shores. The corona virus has become increasingly feared and misunderstood. At the time of writing this article Jamaica has recorded 605 confirmed COVID-19 cases of those 605, 405 have recovered and 10 have died. This global pandemic of which the world has never seen before has devastated the economy of not only Jamaica but countries all over the world. The World Bank has forecasted Jamaica’s economy to decline 6.2% and an increase of 2% of the next physical year this has taken a huge blow to the Jamaican economy.