Mauritius fully opened its doors to international visitors on Friday, hoping to rebuild its vital tourism industry after long months of isolation because of the COVID19 pandemic.
The move was greeted with a mixture of optimism, relief and some caution in the Indian Ocean paradise.
The idyllic holiday destination, renowned for its spectacular white sandy beaches and turquoise waters, had partly reopened to vaccinated visitors in July for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic emerged in early 2020. According to figures on the Africa CDC website, Mauritius had recorded 13,685 cases of the coronavirus as of September 26, but the weekly average has dropped sharply from an August peak.A briefing note to AFP put the number of COVID-related deaths at 71 as of September 26.
On Wednesday, the government announced it had injected $280 million to shore up the national flag carrier Air Mauritius, which had been put into voluntary administration in April last year because of the pandemic.
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