FULLY VACCINATED PEOPLE RETURNING FROM PANDEMIC-HIT AREAS SHALL ONLY HAVE TO SELF-MONITOR HEALTH FOR 7 DAYS
This highlight content is prescribed in the Ministry of Health’s Official Dispatch No. 6386/BYT-MT on applying COVID-19 prevention and control measures for people returning from pandemic-hit areas.
Specifically, people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (having vaccination certification on the electronic health record or a certificate of having received full doses of COVID-19 vaccine issued by the vaccinating facility, in which the last dose must be taken at least 14 days and no more than 12 months up to the time of arrival/return to the locality), or people who have recovered from COVID-19 (having a certificate of a positive test for SAR-COV-2 by RT-PCR method of single sample no more than 6 months up to the time of arrival/return to the locality) and possess a certificate of recovery from COVID-19 or hospital discharge paper) shall only have to self-monitor their health status at home or accommodations within 07 days after returning from pandemic-hit areas, and shall be tested twice on the first and the seventh days.
People not fully vaccinated or unvaccinated people shall be quarantined at home or accommodations for 14 days after returning from pandemic-hit areas, and continue to self-monitor their health status for the next 14 days. They shall be tested three times, on the first, seventh, and fourteenth days during the home quarantine period.
Also in accordance with this Official Dispatch, people from other provinces, cities, or areas passing through pandemic-hit areas without stopping or parking shall not be subject to quarantine measures.
