Turkey announced on Tuesday to impose 14 days of institutional quarantine mandatory for individuals arriving from Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Brazil, Nepal, and South Africa, to put a cap on the rising numbers of COVID-19 cases.
Turkish Airlines shared the travel advisory, also mentioned that individuals who have been in these nations in the last 14 days will have to submit a negative RT PCR test result not older than 72 hours.
However, passengers coming from the UK, Iran, Egypt, and Singapore will have to submit a negative RT PCR test result conducted a maximum of 72 hours before entry. Passengers coming from any other nation apart from these can easily enter Turkey. They do not need to submit any COVID test result and are not subject to mandatory quarantine if they have been vaccinated at least 14 days before and/or have had the tested positive within the last six months and have recovered.
The official circular mentions, “If passengers departing from these nations cannot submit a vaccine certificate or the documents proving that they’ve had the disease according to the stated rules, submission of a PCR negative test result made maximum 72 hours before the entrance to Turkey, or negative rapid antigen test result made maximum 48 hours before the entrance to Turkey will be deemed sufficient”.
