{"id":294992,"date":"2021-06-24T16:32:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T19:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=294992"},"modified":"2021-06-28T18:49:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T21:49:01","slug":"egypt-allows-vaccinated-travelers-to-enter-without-pcr-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/egypt-allows-vaccinated-travelers-to-enter-without-pcr-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt allows vaccinated travelers to enter without PCR test"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Egyptian Ministry of Health announced on Thursday (24) that the country will allow some foreign travelers who have received their full course of approved COVID-19 vaccines to enter without taking a PCR test.<\/p>\n

Visitors must present officially issued QR-coded certificates to prove they have received one of the vaccines approved by the Egyptian Drug Authority and the World Health Organization (WHO), which are Sputnik, Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Sinopharm, Sinovac, and Johnson & Johnson (aka Janssen, which only requires one dose).<\/p>\n

In a statement to airports and ports, the ministry said that entry without a PCR test will be granted to those who received their second jab more than 14 days before traveling.<\/p>\n

However, travelers from countries with the Delta variant are considered high-risk, including India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Brazil, and must present a negative PCR test or vaccine certificate upon arrival.<\/p>\n

Moreover, these passengers will undergo a quick test upon arrival, regardless of their vaccination status. If the result of that test is positive, a PCR test will be performed. If the PCR test is also positive, the passenger will be transferred to a designated hospital to quarantine.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Egypt reported 466 new COVID-19 cases, bringing its total since the pandemic began to 278,761.<\/p>\n

Egypt lifted many restrictions at the beginning of June and hopes to see an upsurge in tourism this year, as that sector usually accounts for 15% of the country\u2019s GDP.<\/p>\n

*With information from newspapers Arab News and Egypt Independent.<\/em><\/p>\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jalal Morchidi\/Anadolu Agency\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Travelers must present officially issued certificates to prove they have received one of the vaccines approved by the Egyptian Drug Authority and the WHO. However, Brazilians are considered high-risk tourists and must present a negative PCR test and take a quick test on arrival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":294977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[9803,14156,21787,15829,18549,26998,9692,11228,17870,27189],"class_list":{"0":"post-294992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-egypt-en","9":"tag-covid-19-en","10":"tag-delta-variant","11":"tag-pcr","12":"tag-pcr-test","13":"tag-teste-pcr-2-en","14":"tag-tourism-en","15":"tag-turismo-ar","16":"tag-vaccine","17":"tag-vacina-2-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Travelers must present officially issued certificates to prove they have received one of the vaccines approved by the Egyptian Drug Authority and the WHO. However, Brazilians are considered high-risk tourists and must present a negative PCR test and take a quick test on arrival.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}