Tag: mask mandate
HSA drops mask mandate and ban on COVID patients’ visitors
(CNS): It is no longer mandatory to wear masks in Health Services Authority facilities except for specific areas where patients are particularly vulnerable. The HSA has also finally lifted the ban on visitors of COVID-positive patients. However, anyone with COVID-19 or flu symptoms or those around patients at risk of COVID-19 infection must still wear […]
Masks mandate repealed, travel tests dropped
(CNS): Government’s mandatory requirement for people to wear masks to protect against the spread of COVID-19 has been repealed and is now purely voluntary, with the exception of visitors to hospitals, prisons and care homes. Bar and restaurant owners can require staff to mask up when serving customers but the government is no longer compelling […]
Masks rules staying for two more months
(CNS): Government has confirmed that the mask mandate for everyone aged five and over in public buildings, schools, restaurants, bars, transport, including inbound flights to Cayman, and other indoor settings where social distancing cannot be maintained will be in effect for two more months. Limits on outdoor gatherings have been scrapped and the indoor limit […]
Businesses want mask mandate dropped
(CNS): Shomari Scott, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, has called on the government to lift the indoor mask mandate for all retail establishments given the high vaccination rates and the relatively low number of hospitalizations as a result of COVID-19. But the number of SARS-CoV-2 infections has been steadily increasing over the last […]
Mask mandate remains in place, officials warn
(CNS): Restaurants and bars that are telling customers they no longer need to have masks and whose staff are no longer covering their faces are breaking the COVID-19 regulations, Public Health officials have said.
Mask mandate to remain until end of April
(CNS): The government is not yet ready to lift any of its COVID-19 protocols and the health minister has indicated that even school children will need to continue wearing masks until at least the end of April. Sabrina Turner has said that Cabinet is still discussing the mask mandate for indoors, and with the return […]
Bills for work permit vaccine mandates rolled out
(CNS): Government has released two bills that will pave the way for the introduction of mandatory COVID-19 vaccine requirements for work permit holders and some residents in the Cayman Islands. Deputy Governor Franz Manderson has also said that COVID-19 vaccine mandates will soon be introduced for new civil service employees and that discussions are underway […]
New rules curb social interactions
(CNS): After well over a year of few restrictions on day to day life on island, Cayman residents are now facing limits on their behaviour following the outbreak of community transmission of COVID-19. Government leaders have mandated new regulations that will last until at least 22 November but have said they could be removed sooner. […]
Schools included in government mask mandate
(CNS): Children will be wearing masks in school again for a while as government rolls out a mask mandate for all of its buildings. Guidance issued on Sunday by the Department of Education Services (DES) includes a requirement for all students over the age of five to wear masks when riding the bus and moving […]
Face masks duty-free until next year
(CNS): Cabinet approved a 100% waiver of import duty until June next year on imported facial masks, hand sanitizers and surgical gloves following its weekly meeting last week. The waiver comes just as the government is about to reintroduce mask mandates indoors in regulations expected to be rolled out later this week, which was confirmed […]
