Barbados adds UK to list of 'high risk' countries forcing holidaymakers to undergo testing on arrival

Barbados has added the UK to its list of ‘high risk’ countries, forcing holidaymakers to undergo testing upon arrival.

The new restrictions will be implemented from October 1 after a surge in coronavirus cases in the UK.

It comes as the list of countries open to Britons narrowed again this week, with Liechtenstein now requiring travellers who have visited the UK in the past 10 days to quarantine for 10 days upon arrival.

There are now just nine destinations Britons can visit that don’t include some form of test or restriction, including mainland Greece, Italy and Germany.

And, in the latest readjustment to the UK’s travel quarantine rules, people arriving from Denmark, Iceland, Slovakia and the Caribbean island of Curacao will now be required to self-isolate.

Under the new rules, tourists arriving in Barbados will be required to show evidence of a negative Covid-19 test, or risk being refused entry.

Visitors will be required to retest two to three days after their arrival. Once they have their second negative test result, the monitoring process is self-conducted and so doesn’t affect visitors’ schedules

Monitoring includes daily self-temperature checks and sharing that information with the public health teams who will check in via call or text. Monitoring is generally for seven days after arrival or the length of stay, whichever is shorter.

Barbados reopened its borders to international travellers on July 12, and currently travellers arriving in the UK from Barbados are not required to self-isolate.

The country’s tourism authorities said “precautions and safeguards” were being taken to protect both locals and visitors.

Barbados is currently recording a seven-day rate of 1.4 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people, while the UK is on 52.1, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.