Travelers without PCR test may enter the country fulfilling isolation

Thanks to the intervention of the Attorney General’s Office, the 11th Administrative Court of the Bogotá circuit modulated the ruling that required PCR tests for travelers arriving in the country: those who do not have the test, will have to comply with preventive isolation.

The ruling establishes that the proof must be presented before boarding and must be required as an entry requirement for all those who enter by air.

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Before, the ruling established that even presenting the PCR test, it was necessary to comply with preventive isolation for a period of 14 days in the place or home provided in advance by each traveler. Now, only those who do not present the proof must comply with this isolation.

The Ministry of Health and Social Protection, as established by the ruling, must be in charge of regulating compliance with this isolation for those who do not have the proof.

The Minister of Health, Fernando Ruíz, had refused to comply with the ruling of the administrative judge, arguing that it was technically an impossible decision to comply with because not in all countries there is timely access to PCR tests and logistically there were no possibilities to control thousands of tourists fulfilling mandatory isolation.