COLOMBO : Fully vaccinated Sri Lankans travelling to Turkey will be exempted from mandatory quarantine from November 15, Turkish Ambassador R Demet Sekercioglu told Colombo Times on Sunday, November 14.
The envoy said the new rule also applies to people coming from Brazil, South Africa, Nepal,Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
Such travellers must submit the PCR test report with a negative result, made maximum 72 hours before entering the country. Again, those who came directly from Brazil, South Africa, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan and those who were found to have been in these countries in the last 14 days;
Those who cannot document that they have had at least two doses (single dose for Johnson & Johnson) of the vaccines approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization or our country and that at least 14 days have passed since the last dose; They will be quarantined at their residences or at the addresses they will declare, They will be subjected to PCR test on the 10th day of the quarantine period, and if the PCR test result on the 10th day is negative, the quarantine will be terminated,
Those who do not have a PCR test on the 10th day will be kept in quarantine for 14 days, and if the test results are positive, they will act in line with the current pandemic guidelines published by the General Directorate of Public Health of the Ministry of Health.
Young people over the age of 12 and younger than 18 who cannot document that they are fully vaccinated, who will enter our country on the condition of traveling with their parents from the specified countries, will be accepted to the flight with a negative PCR test result 72 hours before. For these people, PCR test will be applied again in their residence, and those with negative PCR test results will be exempted from the quarantine application. Special arrangement provisions at bilateral level with foreign countries are reserved
Children under the age of 12 will be exempted from vaccination certificate applications with a PCR/Antigen test report when they enter the country
