Visitors from high-risk US states to pretest before arrival

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Visitors from high-risk US states to pretest before arrival

AS of July 1, some visitors from the United States who plan to enter the island on and after July 10 will have to be pretested for COVID-19 for their applications for landing to be considered.

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