Amid a drop in infections, countries in Africa are now beginning to completely lift the restrictions they put in place to curb the coronavirus outbreak, with some dropping their mask mandates, other restrictions on entering social areas and a PCR test entry requirements for travelers into the country.
Visitors to Mauritius will now have a much easier experience when traveling to the Indian Ocean Island after the country’s ministry of Health and Wellness waived off visitor requirements of producing a negative PCR test to fully vaccinated travelers effective March 12.
Earlier, fully vaccinated travelers were required to show a negative PCR test that had been taken within 72 hours before departure, to gain entry into Mauritius.
This move comes as the country seeks to boost tourism as demand for travel to Mauritius is currently ramping up.
Referring to this, Director of Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority Arvind Bundhun, said that they are delighted that the Ministry of Health and Wellness has reviewed the sanitary protocol for visitors to Mauritius.
This will in turn automatically enrich the experience of travelling to Mauritius as travelling will now become far easier and streamlined, he noted.
Still in the continent, Kenya is leading Africa in the return to normal life, having removed all virus restrictions as of Friday, March 11, declaring that the coronavirus is no longer a critical threat to society.
The early moves to relax such restrictions have the makings of a new turning point in a 2-year-old pandemic that has had a devastating effect to the aviation ecosystem.
