SAINT LUCIA — Saint Lucia has taken “swift action” to put home quarantine violators into institutional quarantine, Tourism Minister Dominic Fedee disclosed on Tuesday, July 28.
Fedee said five different quarantine locations are in use with a total of 350 rooms, the Saint Lucia Times reported.
“We are quarantining individuals as they have come in,” Fedee told reporters. “We did have to, in a very measured way, resort to some home quarantining because of the fact that our quarantine space was overwhelmed.”
He revealed that as a result, over 100 individuals were in home quarantine. However, Fedee indicated that the authorities were disappointed because there was not a high level of compliance from those persons.
Noting that banks and other establishments reported that those individuals had breached the home quarantine, Fedee declared, “We have taken very swift action to ensure that those individuals were placed in institutional quarantine.”
He appealed to returning nationals who are placed in home quarantine to cooperate and be patient, abiding by the promise they make to medical professionals. See full Saint Lucia Times story at https://stluciatimes.com/home-quarantine-violators-put-into-institutional-quarantine/
