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On December 31, the Ministry of Health signed resolution 2532, which modified the technical annex to resolution 1627 of 2020 and the requirement for negative PCR tests was revived for international travelers entering the country by air.
(In context: Travelers entering the country must present negative PCR)
This document is the result of a guardianship ruling imposed last November by the administrative court 11, which resolved to reinstate this requirement that had been eliminated by the health authorities weeks before.
At the time, when it was decided to eliminate this requirement, the Ministry of Health assured that followed the recommendations made by organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), that these tests did not represent an impact to mitigate the circulation of the virus and that the passengers, in any case, were going to be monitored through the Strategy of Testing, Tracking and Sustainable Selective Isolation (PRASS).
However, several countries in the region and Europe decided in recent weeks to enforce this requirement and even bodies such as the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended testing before and after the trip.
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And despite the fact that the Ministry of Health decided to challenge the judge’s decision and there are still no results of a substantive ruling, the health authority issued the resolution and, in short, Passengers arriving in Colombia must already present a negative PCR.
The airport authorities will enforce this requirement in each district, according to the document.
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The document establishes that since last December 31 all international passengers – including infants, children and adolescents – arriving in the country must present the result of their PCR test before boarding practiced maximum 96 hours before the flight. Airlines must inform about this requirement on their web pages.
The Vice Minister of Health, Luis Alexander Moscoso, explained that people who are in transit to the country or are close to their trip and do not have a PCR test with a negative result may arrive in the country and must have it done in national territory and keep quarantine for two weeks.
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“Travelers who do not have the PCR test They must state in writing, in the form provided for it, their difficulty in taking the test at the place of origin or obtaining the results in the times stipulated for the flight. In these cases, once entering the country, the traveler must undergo the PCR test and keep preventive isolation for 14 days. Isolation may end sooner if the test result is negative. Both the value of the test and the costs derived from the preventive isolation will be in charge of the traveler ”, explains the resolution in its technical annex.
Needless to remember that other requirements to arrive in the country by air are not to present respiratory symptoms, wear the mask all the time and fill out the ‘Check-Mig’ application form.
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