Testing requirements

(1) For the purposes of preventing, controlling, containing and suppressing the spread of COVID-19, every person who enters Belize through the airport shall submit to testing by the Ministry responsible for health if that person does not provide– (a) a PCR test taken within 96 hours prior to arrival in Belize; or (b) any other test for SARS-CoV2 approved by the Ministry responsible for health, taken within 48 hours prior to arrival in Belize. (2) Notwithstanding subregulation (1), every person with business concerns in Belize shall, upon arrival in Belize, provide 32 a PCR test taken within 96 hours prior to arrival in Belize, or any other test for SARS-CoV2 approved by the Ministry responsible for health, taken within 48 hours prior to arrival in (3) For the purposes of preventing, controlling, containing and suppressing the spread of COVID-19, notwithstanding that a person may provide a PCR test or other test for SARS-CoV2 approved by the Ministry responsible for health taken within 96 hours or 48 hours, as the case may be, prior to arrival in Belize, that person may be subjected to random testing by the Ministry responsible for health. (4) Any person who is not a Belizean who fails to comply with subregulations (1), (2) or (3) shall be denied entry into (5) A person denied entry under subregulation (4) shall– (a) be required to return to his port of origin at his own expense at the earliest occasion; and (b) if unable to be immediately returned to his port of origin, at the person’s own expense, be put into mandatory quarantine at a government designated quarantine facility at the direction of, and for a period of time as directed by, the Quarantine Authority and in accordance with the guidelines of the Ministry responsible for