St Kitts and Nevis' mobile health app ready as country preapres to reopen its borders

As the twin-island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis move ahead to reopen its borders, Chief Medical Officer Dr Hazel Laws provided new information on the ongoing plans and protocols.

Chief Medical Officer, Dr Hazel Laws stated that the ministry of tourism and other tourism authorities of the countries have been conducting meetings with the members of the national covid-19 task force in order to make better plans as St Kitts and Nevis is preparing to reopen its borders after closing down for pandemic. Managements of the hotels also took part in these meetings.

As per Dr Laws, individual visits have also been made by all these authorities to hotels of the country to evaluate and to set out a package of services that will be offered to travellers arriving from high-risk countries.

Besides this, Dr Laws even discussed the preparations of the hotel industry in St Kitts and Nevis. She noted that there is a minimum risk of the coronavirus in these well-managed hotel properties. As per the chief medical officer, these hotels are all geared up for reopening.

Furthermore, she added that the new mobile health application exclusively created by the government for coronavirus is ready and Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport will also be organised by October 31.

Dr Laws called for support to the people and stated that every individual has a role to play in the safe reopening.

"We all have a responsibility to prevent the spread of coronavirus by following the hygiene and social distancing measures that we are already used to," added Dr Laws.

She advised people to never neglect following the health guidelines and stated that wearing of face masks, hand hygiene, sanitation and keeping widely touched areas clean, social distancing are the only methods to keep ourselves virus-free.

Dr Laws stated that people should maintain a distance of 3.3 feet from each other in public spaces and must also avoid mass assemblies.