Barbados: Authorities modify and extend existing COVID-19 restrictions through June 27 /update 30

Event

Authorities modified and extended COVID-19-related measures through at least June 27. Under the modified restrictions, a new 24-hour curfew is in effect on Sundays. During the Sunday curfew, all persons must remain in their homes except to work in or patronize an approved business, attend a religious service, visit a park or beach, exercise outdoors, give or receive COVID-19 vaccines, or clean private or approved public premises.

On all days except Sundays, the previously declared 00:01-05:00 nightly curfew remains in effect. During these hours, everyone must stay at home except to attend to an emergency or provide an essential service.

The following restrictions also remain in effect:

• Bars may operate at no more than 50 percent capacity.

• Pleasure craft and charter boats may not carry more than 50 percent of their authorized number of passengers.

• Meetings of civic associations, private or social clubs, and other organizations may resume as long as participants follow mask-wearing, social distancing, and sanitization protocols. Such gatherings are limited to 100 people.

• The wearing of facemasks remains mandatory in all public spaces.

• Individuals must adhere to physical distancing protocols by maintaining at least 1.8 meters (6 feet) between each other except in places of religious worship, where officials have reduced physical distancing requirement to 1 meter (3 feet).

• Establishments must enforce strict physical distancing and sanitization protocols.

International Travel Protocols
Standard travel protocols are applied to all travelers, regardless of the country departure point. All travelers must wear facemasks at the airport. Existing entry requirements include the following:

• Authorities require all persons intending to enter Barbados to present a negative result from a COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test taken no more than 72 hours before arrival.

• All travelers must submit an online Immigration/Customs form 24 hours before travel to enter Barbados; the form is available online or on the BIMSafe mobile application.

• All arrivals must take a rapid antigen test on arrival. Travelers who test negative must complete a mandatory quarantine period at a government-approved quarantine location before another PCR test is administered on the traveler's fifth day in-country. The traveler's quarantine ends when a negative result from the said test is confirmed. Travelers must wear a tracking bracelet during the quarantine period.

• Any traveler who tests positive will enter an isolation facility.

Travelers who provide proof of vaccination are not required to adhere to standard quarantine measures as long as they present a negative result from a PCR test taken no more than three days prior to departure for Barbados, receive a negative result from a PCR test taken upon arrival on the island, and have also spent 21 days outside of "countries of special consideration" (i.e., India, Brazil, and South Africa) before arrival. They must wait for the results of this second test under quarantine within their place of accommodation. Barbados considers fully vaccinated individuals as those who completed their vaccination series more than two weeks before their travel to Barbados.

Barbados has routinely extended the restrictions shortly before their expiration and may continue to do so.

Advice

Follow all official instructions. Abide by national health and safety measures. Reconfirm all travel arrangements.

Resources

World Health Organization (WHO)
Government Travel Protocols
Pre-Arrival Travel Form