Roadmap towards the re-opening of St. Eustatius.
ST. EUSTATIUS--The public entity St. Eustatius will further open up its borders on Sunday, May 9, by introducing the second phase of the roadmap. Family members of residents and Statians who want to return home can enter as of this date. Also, visitors from Curaçao, Aruba, St. Maarten, Bonaire and Saba are welcome in Statia.
The only condition is that all incoming travellers must be fully vaccinated. Everyone else can also visit Statia, but must go into quarantine for 10 days if they are not fully vaccinated.
The third phase of the roadmap does not have a starting date, but will commence when 50 per cent of the population of Statia is vaccinated. When this is reached, fully vaccinated visitors can come to Statia without the mandatory 10-day quarantine. Up until now 879 persons, or 37 per cent of Statians have received both doses of the Moderna vaccine.
In the fourth phase everyone can enter the island, also unvaccinated visitors without the need to go into quarantine. The condition is that the majority of Statia residents must be vaccinated, which has been set at 80 per cent.
The easing of measures started on April 11 with the first phase of the roadmap towards re-opening of the island. As of that day, Statia residents who are fully vaccinated do not need to go into quarantine anymore when entering Statia after travelling abroad.
The decision to further ease the measures was taken after careful deliberation and only after consulting key partners involved – the Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sport VWS, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, the Public Health Department and the Crisis Management team in Statia.
