Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) President Omar Robinson says there needs to be further clarification on the pretesting regime for visitors from certain American states as part of Jamaica’s COVID-19-prevention measures.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday indicated that visitors from Florida, New York, Arizona, and Texas are now required to pretest for the coronavirus before travelling to Jamaica.

Robinson says the JHTA is pleased with the change as the association had supported COVID pretesting.

While supporting the new position, the JHTA head says the pretesting requirement has resulted in some amount of confusion that needs to be addressed.

“[There are] some questions to be answered, [such as]  how to discern or validate from which state visitors are from when they have connecting flights through one of the named states?