As of December 11, 2021: “Red” (high-risk) zones: Andorra, Anguilla, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bonaire, Saint Eustatius & Saba, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cayman Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Guernsey, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Jersey Island, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Man Island, Mauritius, Monaco, Montenegro, Nepal, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland, Poland, Portugal, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America.
“Yellow” (medium-risk) zones: Albania, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaidjan, Belarus, Belize, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Dominica, French Polynesia, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mongolia, Northern Macedonia,
The Republic of Moldova, Saint Vincent & Grenadine, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Vietnam.
From December 10, 2021 — until January 8, 2022, the following Covid prevention measures will be in effect:
Visitors and residents arriving from a green or yellow EU / EU Economic Space country or Switzerland must enter 14-day quarantine if cannot show: — proof of vaccination (complete scheme) or — proof of Covid recovery within 180 days
or — a negative RT-PCT test performed no more than 72 hours before arrival into Romania.
Visitors and residents arriving from a red EU / EU Economic Space country or Switzerland must enter 14-day quarantine if cannot show: — proof of vaccination (complete scheme) or — proof of Covid recovery within 180 days.
Duration of quarantine for visitors and residents arriving from a red EU country – who are not vaccinated or cannot show proof of Covid recovery within 180 days will be reduced to 10-days if a negative RT-PCT test, performed no more than 72 hours before arrival into Romania, is presented.
Visitors and residents arriving from any non-EU / non-EU Economic Space country must enter 14-day quarantine if: — cannot show a negative RT-PCT test performed no more than 48 hours before arrival into Romania, even if vaccinated or can show proof of Covid recovery within 180 days.
Duration of quarantine for visitors and residents arriving from any non-EU country will be reduced to 10-days if an RT-PCT test, performed no more than 48 hours before arrival into Romania, is presented and the visitor has been vaccinated or can show proof of Covid recovery within 180 days.
Exceptions from mandatory quarantine: ~ children 0 to 12 y.o., ~ youth 12 y.o. — 16 y.o. who can show a negative RT-PCT test, performed no more than 72 hours before arrival into Romania, ~ Romanian students studying abroad and foreign students studying in Romania and can document their active student status, ~ visitors which are non vaccinated or cannot show proof of Covid recovery within 180 days who can present a negative RT-PCT test performed no more than 72 hours before arrival in Romania and will stay in Romania for no more than 72 hours (three days), ~ visitors, in transit, who will remain in Romania for less than 24 hours, ~ members of visiting sports teams who can show a negative RT-PCT test, performed no more than 72 hours before arrival into Romania, even if not-vaccinated or did not recover from Covid infections in the past 180 days.
Before entering Romania, visitors and residents need to complete a Passenger Locator Form / Declaration (two simple steps, online).
Children 0 to 3 years old: there is no need for a negative RT-PCT test
Children and teenagers 3 to 16 years old: a negative PCR test is required. The test must have been performed no more than 72 hours before the date of entry into Romania.
To qualify for the fully vaccinated traveller exemption, Travellers must:
have no signs or symptoms of COVID-19
have received the full series of an accepted COVID-19 vaccine or a combination of accepted vaccines
have received your last dose at least 14 days prior to the day you enter Romania (i.e. . if your last dose was on August 1, then August 16 would be the first day that you meet the 14-day condition.
meet all other Romania entry requirements (passport or EU ID, visa if needed).
Accepted COVID-19 vaccines in Romania:
Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty, tozinameran, BNT162b2)
Moderna (mRNA-1273)
AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD (ChAdOx1-S, Vaxzevria, AZD1222)
Janssen/Johnson & Johnson (Ad26.COV2.S)
The list of accepted vaccines may expand in the future.
All other Covid vaccines are not currently accepted for fully vaccinated status in Romania.
There are no exemptions from testing or quarantine for partially-vaccinated travellers (travellers who haven’t received the full series of a vaccine or a combination of vaccines accepted by the Government of Romania).
