There is a government task force trying to figure out how to open the borders safely, but nothing useful has been made public yet. Meanwhile entry in October ("soft opening") will be limited to citizens, permanent residents, and property owners and require a 5 day quarantine with a biobutton (for 14 days) and a negative virus test after the 5 days. If the 4-week soft opening goes well (don't hold your breath, no pun intended) then it will be extended to tourists in November. Not to sound (too much) like a broken record, but as posted before, the Premier has said many times at his televised briefings, that he did not expect the borders to open to tourism until the end of the year at the earliest - primarily because of how other countries in general, and the US in particular, are (not) managing the virus. And that seems to be what's happening.
Meanwhile a few restaurants and dive shops have closed - not clear if all the closings will be permanent. The financial sector is holding its own, and the health care sector is down a bit. We try to get out to a restaurant once or twice a week just to give them business, and at least on the weekends the restaurants and bars have been packed (with mostly appropriate distancing). I worry about the dive shops. I'm diving twice a week and splitting that with two ops that are each running a boat once or twice a week (vs running multiple boats twice a day, 7 days a week). I know of one other op that is running and did see an additional op's boat moored at a dive site a few days ago, so there are maybe four ops running - and if there are more they have not publicized it and I've not seen their boats moored at SMB dive sites (where I live) or at any of the west, south and north sites we've been diving. But what worries me is that since the island opened for diving again, almost every outing has had only 2 - 4 divers. I don't know how long these operators can hang on with that little amount of business. I assume most of the locals are doing shore dives instead.
