Senator Lyndon Farnham said that ministers had agreed ‘in principle’ to end blanket PCR swabbing for passengers later this month, with an announcement due to be made soon.
He said: ‘There are still details that need to be signed off, but ministers have been in discussion and I anticipate the border controls will be relaxed later this month. Our vaccination programme has made very strong progress – and of course we will continue to monitor the situation very closely – but we are in a position where we can continue to take careful, measured steps back to normality.’
He added: ‘Such changes will also benefit our visitor economy, by increasing the viability of short-term visits during this winter period.’
The move would bring Jersey in line with other jurisdictions – with Guernsey recently announcing it was scrapping the arrival testing requirement for Common Travel Area arrivals, regardless of a passenger’s vaccination status.
