NICOSIA: Cyprus will allow British travelers who’ve been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 into the nation without restrictions from May 1, its tourism minister mentioned on Mar 4.
British visitors are the largest market for Cyprus’s tourism industry, which has suffered from the coronavirus pandemic. Arrivals and earnings from the sector, which represents about 13per cent of the Cypriot economy, plunged on average 85 percent in 2020.
“We have informed the British government that from May 1 we’ll facilitate the arrival of British nationals who’ve been vaccinated … so they can visit Cyprus without a negative test or needing to quarantine,” Deputy Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios informed the semi-official Cyprus News Agency.
Visitors would have to be inoculated with vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency, he mentioned. The second dose of a vaccine should be administered at the latest seven days before travel.
Authorities would still reserve the right to hold out random tests on arrivals, he added.
Cyprus has been out and in of lockdown for about a yr, but its coronavirus outbreak has been mild compared to different nations. By Thursday, it had recorded a total of 36,004 infections and 232 deaths.
Authorities have also launched widespread testing, with almost everyone obliged to take a check once a week.
