the US agency again places Jamaica on its high-risk travel list because of rising COVID-19 infections
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Hotelier Richard Wallace
Members of Jamaica's tourism sector have expressed frustration after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) re-listed Jamaica in its high risk category for travel on Tuesday because of COVID-19 infections.
The high risk category applies to countries that have had more than 100 cases of the virus per 100,000 residents in the last 28 days.
Richard Wallace, Negril-based hotelier, told Radio Jamaica News that the CDC's decision had not come as a surprise.
He stressed that, with the country's COVID-19 infection rate being up again, measures are needed to contain transmission of the virus, despite the fact that "people are fed up and frustrated with this Covid pandemic."
"The reality is, we cannot ignore it... so my encouragement would be that we take a look and see what can be done to slow the rate and get us back out of this," he said.
In its COVID-19 update on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health & Wellness said the positivity rate was 32. 1 per cent and that there were 124 patients with the disease in hospital.
Despite this development, Mr. Wallace is not expecting the CDC advisory on Jamaica to put a damper on arrivals.
He said more people are travelling globally despite the threat posed by COVID-19, and "it's going to take a lot more than this to really get peopoe to slow down again."
Accordingly, he's predicting that Jamaica will see any visitor fall-off "in the immediate future."
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