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· While the Seychelles’ international airport is gearing up for starting operations shortly to facilitate flow of tourists –the
mainstay of the economy, it is learnt that health authorities will allow only visitors travelling on private jets and chartered flights
going to other island resorts
· The conditions that are stipulated include limiting the movements of tourists to their hotels and resorts, undergoing compulsory testing for the virus 48 hours before they take the flight etc
· Seychelles, a group of 115 islands and an idyllic tourist destination in the western Indian Ocean, is free of COVID-19 as all 11 patients who once tested positive have fully recovered
While the Seychelles’ international airport is gearing up for starting operations shortly to facilitate flow of tourists –the mainstay of the economy, it is learnt that health authorities will allow only visitors travelling on private jets and chartered flights going to other island resorts. Before tourists are allowed into the country, the hotels and motels, where they are going to stay have to satisfy criteria and guidelines put in place by the health and tourism department.
The conditions that are stipulated include limiting the movements of tourists to their hotels and resorts, undergoing compulsory testing
for the virus 48 hours before they take the flight etc. There will be rapid testing arrangements at the disembarking air port also before commuting to their hotels/resorts in a controlled manner. The visitors will not be allowed to leave their places of stay . The health authorities will be constantly in touch with the hotels/ resorts to track the movement of visitors on a real time basis.
Seychelles, a group of 115 islands and an idyllic tourist destination in the western Indian Ocean, is free of COVID-19 as all 11 patients who once tested positive have fully recovered.
However, there are still 90 people in quarantine. The island country has made elaborate arrangements for checking the spread of the virus. The Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) has installed cameras that take one second to detect high temperatures at one metre away.
