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No quarantine for SL passport holders

16 Sep 2021

By Dinitha Rathnayake Fully vaccinated Sri Lankans who arrive in the country will have the opportunity to go home without undergoing quarantine if the on-arrival polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test at the facility established at the Bandaranaike International Airport premises in Katunayake comes back negative. “If you are vaccinated with both dosages of a Covid-19 vaccine and your PCR test report comes back negative, there is no need to be quarantined,” the Health Ministry announced yesterday (16). This decision is expected to be implemented within the next two weeks and steps will also be taken to improve the facilities at the Airport premises. It is learned that such inspection reports can be received within a period of three hours and that 600 people could be tested per day in a timely manner. Previously, Sri Lankan passport holders were subjected to hotel quarantine or Government-sponsored quarantine. The process for resident Sri Lankan passport holders who have been fully vaccinated was that they needed no approval from the Health Ministry, the Foreign Affairs Ministry, or the Civil Aviation Authority to enter Sri Lanka. However, the PCR test within 72 hours prior to departure, the proof of vaccination (on arrival at the Airport), the health declaration form (on arrival at the Airport), the on-arrival PCR test on day one, and mandatory quarantine at a quarantine centre/quarantine hotel/or a safe and secure level one hotel until the result of the on-arrival PCR test arrives, were a must. If the on-arrival PCR test was negative, and proof of vaccination was satisfactory to the officer in charge or the hotel doctor, the fully vaccinated traveller was released from quarantine.  

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