ST GEORGE’S, Grenada – As Grenada prepares to remove COVID-19 restrictions next Monday, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Shawn Charles has warned citizens that they will be responsible for their protection.
Masks will no longer be mandatory. Additionally, regardless of vaccination status, all travelers to Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique will no longer be required to take COVID-19 tests to enter. There will also be no further need to show proof of vaccination status on arrival.
In an interview on Friday with the Ministry’s Public Information Officer Keville Frederick, the CMO said that people will have to do what they think is necessary to protect themselves from next week.
“The advice is that persons are now responsible almost entirely for their protection. The state will no longer be mandating that they wear masks, mandating that they sanitize their hands, mandating that the distance. Persons have to make that individual decision for themselves now,” he said.
“All the differentiation between vaccinated and unvaccinated persons, all of that will be removed, and the requirement for entry – vaccination and testing and so on – have been removed as well, so now the onus is on the individual.”
Dr. Charles said the Ministry would continue to offer the COVID-19 vaccines to the public.
“Going forward, vaccines will remain available at all of our medical facilities,” he said.
However, the Chief Medical Officer added, because of the low uptake at the site at the National Stadium, consideration is being given to whether that location should remain open.
Grenada currently offers four leading COVID-19 vaccines – Oxford AstraZeneca, Pfizer BioNTech, Johnson and Johnson, and Moderna.
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