HAVANA (Reuters) – Most travelers coming into Cuba as of Feb. 6 shall be quarantined for up to a week, the government informed on Saturday, and flights from the USA and other nations lowered to no more than once per week per airline.
Travelers should stay in hotels at their very own expense and residents in special centers free of cost till a test at 5 days comes back negative.
Guests already must arrive with proof of a negative test for the new coronavirus and take another one at the airport.
Some resorts isolated from the population may have looser guidelines, and diplomats, businessmen, overseas students, and journalists will each have their own locations and protocols.
COVID-19 cases have surged within the nation since airports started reopening in November with more than 13,000 cases so far in January, more than 4 times the monthly toll last yr, with deaths now at 213, for a rate of 0.87%, less than half the international and regional percentages.
The government says more than 70 % of the cases are directly or indirectly linked to travelers, mainly Cubans living overseas visiting family, who disregard home-based quarantine guidelines.
Flights from the USA, Mexico, Panama, the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, and a few other nations, and which carry many Cubans, had already been lowered this month and now will be further.
