WATCH LIVE: Prime Minister’s Address to the Nation

Bostic: Over the past three months Barbados has conducted 43,962 tests, which resulted in 529 positive cases of COVID -19.

• In the last six weeks there have been single-digit cases of COVID-19 in Barbados.
•  Three positive cases of the Delta Variant of COVID-19 have been identified in Barbados.
• All four people who were identified with the Delta and Gamma variant have been treated and discharged from the Harrison Point facility. There has been no local transmission of those variants.
• The work to outfit the Best Dos Santos Public Health Laboratory to be able to test for the COVID-19 variants has begun.

Prime Minister Mia Mottley

• The curfew will be removed completely from June 30, 2021
• The Government will be allowing promoters to have parties that are limited to 150 people in one location.
• We are not ready for mass events, therefore there will be no Crop Over, however regulated events will be permitted.
• Barbados will create a bubble for fully vaccinated passengers from low-risk Caribbean countries. Those with a negative PCR test can immediately enter from June 30, 2021.
• Government has set a tentative date of July 16, 2021 for the resumption of spectators at sporting events.
• There are still some more protocols for the pleasure craft cruise which have to be determined. Becuase of the inability to monitor while at sea, pleasure craft vessels can only operate dockside while adhering to all of the COVID-19 protocols.
• If oil prices continue to rise the Government will move to cap the tax charged on the cost of fuel.