All children arriving in the Cayman Islands will now be able to take on the vaccination status of the adult they are travelling with. The result is that no vaccinated adult or child (aged 0-11) who is travelling with them will be required to quarantine.
Regardless of vaccination status, all visitors over the age of four will still be required to take and receive a negative LFT or PCR test before travel.
Those who are unvaccinated, or are taking that status for their parents or guardians, will still be required to quarantine, for a period now reduced from 14 to 10 days.
"After collaborative assessment of our COVID-19 response, we will officially be moving into a coordinate phase 5 of our COVID-19 response," Cayman Premier Hon. Wayne Panton said at a news conference. "We are quite satisfied that this has been the right move to amend this policy."
Travellers originating from a country with less than 60% vaccination rates will still have to quarantine for seven days, down from 10 previously.
The move is encouraging news for the Cayman Islands' tourism sector. This is the fifth of a five-stage reopening plan which began last August after a long lockdown. Vaccinated tourists were first allowed in without quarantine in October 2021.
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