UK confirms closure of travel corridors
(CNS): The UK government has now formally announced that from Monday, 18 January, its travel corridors with other countries and territories will be suspended until 15 February at the earliest. This includes the link between London and Grand Cayman, one of 64 countries or territories on the UK’s travel corridor list. Travellers from these jurisdictions were not required to isolate when arriving in Britain.
Officials have confirmed that the flights have not been suspended but passengers on the British Airways flights due on 28 January and 12 February will be impacted.
From 4:00am on Monday, 18 January, all arrivals into the UK will be required to complete a passenger locator form, be in possession of a negative test taken before departure to the UK, and isolate for 10 days on arrival. The Cayman Islands Health Services Authority has expanded its testing service to accommodate travellers who need a test.
Appointment times are now available on Saturday, 23 January, from 8:30am to 10:30am and can be made online here.
“Many countries are now requiring proof of a negative COVID-19 test prior to boarding, therefore persons are reminded to check the requirements of countries they are travelling to and to book your COVID test in the time-frame required,” said Medical Officer of Health Dr Samuel Williams-Rodriguez. “We will be expanding our testing hours even further and will advise the public once these additional clinics have been scheduled.”
The UK is running a test to release scheme, in which the ten-day isolation period may be reduced if a private COVID-19 test is paid for by the passenger during the quarantine period.
More information on travel corridors can be found here.
Anyone with travel questions should contact the Travel Cayman team via email TravelCayman@gov.ky
or call 1-345-945-0556 / 1-345-946-7858
Phone lines are open Monday through Friday 8.30am to 5pm.See the vaccination schedule, the consent form and the Vaccination Plan Brochure in the CNS Library here.
For more details on the vaccination programme visit the HSA website here.
For more information on COVID-19 in the Cayman Islands, visit the CIG site here.
Good, the UK is dump anyway (and I’m originally from there!!).
Seems like some people are having a bad reaction to the vaccine. Heard it through the coco plum bush.
How does this affect the Covid vaccine which presently is couriered on the BA flights? Will this impact the roll out schedule the Cayman government has planned?
Why didn’t the UK follow caymans lead. Cayman has lead the world in fighting the Pandemic from day one.
Cayman has just launched the most successful reopening plan in the history of mankind.
I am so happy to be in Cayman.
Michael, there are plenty of other countries/territories which have done better than Cayman. Our version of Covid in 99% of cases displays no symptoms, this helps a little bit. As for our “re-opening plan” it hasn’t started yet!
When it comes to hyperbole you rank right up there, but maybe not the greatest in the history of mankind.
12:29. Denial is a rotten thing.
Plenty of other countries have done better than Cayman? Really?
Perhaps you should visit one of those countries and tell us what a great place it is.
Face facts. Cayman is the best place to live work and post rubbish.
Banon, ignorance is a rotten thing.Check the WHO list of countries. Cayman is a good place to live, but also a good place to read plenty of rubbish like yours.
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Banon, my friend, BS.
You live in an island with an open dump, high costs, unemployed people, gov with no plan.
There is no good place anymore. Brainwashing mode in ON.
Because our plan was to wait for someone else to develop a vaccine and hope that they would give us some. Fortunately the UK didn’t copy our plan!
Lol … All Cayman had to do was follow the other BOT territories starting with the Isle of Man then Guernsey. Both of which “led the world”too.
But do not worry, you will have several chances to do it all again.
Michael, Cayman has had one of the best shutdown plans I’ve seen! Kudos to them for a job WELL done!!! However, we have the advantage of being an itty bitty little place that could completely isolate ourselves from the world by closing our airports/seaport. The design of our roadways also made it exceptionally easy to institute roadblocks to check for violators during shutdown. A population in entire our country that is smaller than some suburbs in other places was also a huge advantage.
As far as your comment on “the most successful reopening plan in the history of mankind”…….are you insane? There has been no true reopening yet. I think they did a great job on getting certain areas of business going but one of our main industries is being strangled to death!! I don’t have a dog in the fight, as the saying goes, but I am saddened to see the lack of effort in reopening such a critical area as tourism.
The details that have been proposed for the reopening of borders will do little to help stimulate tourism.
• Requiring the vaccine to avoid quarantine sounds great but truth is that people overseas, that are in our target market, aren’t going to be getting it in a timely fashion due to supply issues and choice to not have it.
• Opting for quarantine instead isn’t going to happen as no one is going to waste their time/money going to a place to stay indoors.
• Having to test multiple times AFTER arrival is a burden people aren’t going to take on.
In the time we’ve been shutdown, many of our repeat travelers have gone to new places that HAVE actually reopened and some have said they’ll continue going there. We need a plan that keeps Cayman safe but allows recovery of the industry to happen.
Cayman is still operating with the same mindset as when the pandemic started. At the onset, we knew nothing about this virus and it seemed it was basically a life-sentence to catch Covid. We now know that isn’t necessarily the case and the rush to put patients on ventilators is no more as it was found to be detrimental to recovery. Thankfully, there is now knowledge on treatments that are very very successful. More importantly, we have seen that for the majority of persons the recovery rate is near 100% with many exhibiting mild symptoms (if any!). I am NOT saying there isn’t risk!!! I’m saying it is time to weigh the risk of an actual functioning reopening against the cost of not reopening.
11:08- best post I have read in a long time!
Agreed, a sensible author with all valid and verifiable points to digest.
11:08, not much people paying you any mind huh! Poor you.
AMEN!
I think the hot sun has melted your brain
Read the story
No because the flights still come! Closing travel corridor doesn’t mean they cancel he flights – it means you have to quarantine and have a negative test enter to enter the UK. Amazing how many people on here seem to only read Cayman news and not read BBC/The Times/international respected news sources regularly. Astonishing.
Well you’re supposed to quarantine. Nobody does. What’s the point when the working classes ignore testing and self-isolating requirements and spread it around like crazy?
Most people don’t even seem to read past the headlines!!!! From there, they assume/infer/create information and then run with it!
How will this affect the Brac? I got mine on the 10th & due for my 2nd on the 31st. Will the Brac have stock for our final jabs?
Where?
BA flights are still coming in as scheduled. What is closing is the so called “travel corridor”, which is the exemption from having to isolate for 10 days after arrival in the UK. The UK have also added a negative pcr test to be able to travel back to the UK
We hope those of us that got the first Covid 19 Vaccine will be able to get the second shot in three weeks . They should keep back enough Vaccines those that got the first can get the second one
I though they was only giving the Vaccine to 70 and over,front line workers, and helpers working in old people homes. I saw expats/visitors under 60 and not front line workers get the Vaccine. Why, why, why. They can get the Vaccine in their country,
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Those of you that shot down 3;47 commit, why you all don’t agree that if one got the first Vaccine that they should be able to get the second one. Please explain why u don’t agree with that.
If so many didn’t get it because they know someone at HSA or in government than they could have gotten their second dose.
Well you know what they told you
I think it’s worth repeating this, the flights are still coming, so is the vaccine, the change is anyone now going to the UK (from Cayman) has to quarantine in the UK on arrival. The corridors were defined routes that allowed people to avoid the self quarantine requirements. Doesn’t make a lot of sense for Cayman to be shut down, but then they aren’t going to make exceptions for 400 people a month.
ant they openning borders end of march???? wa a mess
more like after election.
The next one, or the one after?
Once again highlighting the recklessness of having allocated our scarce vaccination supplies, with uncertain restocking, to so many not at risk, not normally resident, and/or not properly in the priority queues.
They should not have giving the Vaccine to short time visitors , they could get it in their own countries , also young people was getting it an lots of old people and front line workers could not get it
On the Brac we hear they giving the vaccine to anyone that come to get it, Visitors and young included, elderly and front line workers are left out.
3.30am Did anyone take their donkey?.
tRUE – many american/british tourists who have self isolated for 14 days but now out of quarantine queued upa nd got a vaccine, as over 70 or whatever the criteria were
I know some elderly Brits who got it. Seems fair. a) their taxes paid for it and b) they need it to return home safely. I can wait.
Thats righ Anon give it to only Caymanians over 70 because the visitors who live her won’t die if they get it.
Poor Anon.
Oh no- now when will cayman open???
All I can say is Cha Ching!!! Getn harder to cheapen up the labour costs 🙂
My wallet should be X fat by this time. 🤔
Borders not open? Not fair. 😤
Shm. 🤣🥱