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Zulfi Ali wrote:

And how much will this Pcr test will cost as taking one In UK cost anything from £59 to £100 depend where you go. Also I have NHS pack rapid antegen test can I bring them to Mauritius and will they be accepted if I test myself.
We are encouraged to test ourselves every week at home in UK.
Is the Mauritius government planning to do the same as this would help tracking cases

PCR tests for travellers are conducted by the officers of Ministry of Health.
A PCR costs around Rs2500 - Rs3000

A rapid antigen test costs around Rs300.

I don't know whether you can bring your own (If tests are conducted by the officers of the Ministry of Health, you might not have the choice to use your own).

International unvaccinated travellers  will need to quarantine in one of the safe travel hotels, prices are as follows :

International travellers in quarantine:
You will have three tests: on day 0 at the airport, on day 7 and day 14 of your quarantine hotel stay.

Rs 12,000 for all three tests

weenalda wrote:

Strange the US government issued a travel advisory for US citizens to avoid travel to Mauritius. I’ve been fully vaccinated since March, if boosters are recommended today, I will get that too. Only traveling yo MAU next March

Authorities have been making arrangements for 3rd dose vaccination to those who have already been vaccinated twice (covaxin, sinopharm etc). Will start administrating 3rd dose in October. However I don't know whether it is a requirement for travellers to get a booster.

Heckstall wrote:

Is a travel and health insurance required or optional when visiting Mauritius as a tourist from France for the maximum allowed of 3 Months ? thanks in advance.

Air Mauritius doesn't mention any travel and health insurance maybe it is recommended (optional)

Better you check out with them or your airline.

Regards

standaman1967 wrote:

there is indeed a lot of fake news about. i had a beer and watched the football in my local mauritian pub just the other night and paid for the drinks with cash from the atm across the road. My kids have been going to school every day since august (though admittedly there has been some rotation in days to keep transmission rates as  low as possible (so some home schooling). And i'm off to the beach in a minute for my daily swim as will a lot of locals. you cant picnic on the beach - but crikey that is hardly a catastrophe. Normal will return if people listen to the scientists and doctors, get themselves vaccinated and stop listening to fake news.

Fake news  hahaha. Good luck with getting an experimental drug injected in your body then. I suppose only time will tell. Oh by the way the latest data from UK government is that 90% of the deaths now are for the patients who were fully vaccinated with both doses.I will post the link here.Also do not forget to view the yellow card status of the side effects reported by people who took the vaccination who all were healthy and never had an issue before. All the best

Something worth reading here too...

standaman1967 wrote:

to pick up on the point that the majority if people being hospitalised have been vaccinated is true - and of course if you did the maths and thought about it logically, it makes perfect sense - if you vaccinate almost 100% of your adult population, as the uk has, then effectively those that get ill despite the vaccination campaign, are still going to be the most vulnerable - ie the elderly, those with pre-conditions, etc. in other words when all things are equal, then these same groups are the ones most likely to end up with a serious illness. crucially though - and again a vital fact you neglected to mention, is that hospitalisations and serious illness in the uk and deaths - are a fraction of what they were as a % of new cases, from a year ago.

Yes, your point is covered on this episode of the podcast More Or Less on the BBC.

Worth a listen: