Jamaica is now requiring that travellers from Guyana have the Yellow Fever vaccination.
In a travel advisory in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek, the Jamaican Consulate in Georgetown said that Guyana is one of the countries from which the South East Regional Health Authority of the Kingston and St Andrew Health Department has advised that travellers must have Yellow Fever Vaccination Certificates in keeping with the International Health Regulations of 2005.
Among the other countries listed are Suriname, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana and Venezuela.
The advisory stated that “All persons seeking to travel to Jamaica from Guyana are therefore required to be vaccinated at least ten days ahead of any planned travel to Jamaica and show proof by way of an international vaccination certificate on arrival at the airport.”
Yellow Fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes.
