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Starting tomorrow, the ban on unnecessary overseas travel and the requirement to undergo COVID-19 testing and quarantine upon entering Latvia for those who can provide a digital COVID certificate proving that they have been vaccinated against the coronavirus will be lifted. or have contracted it in the last six months.
With the increasing proportion of the vaccinated population and the decrease in the number of recently registered COVID-19 cases, the Cabinet of Ministers has decided to lift the epidemiological safety requirements for those who completed the vaccination or relapsed into COVID-19.
For a transitional period that ends on September 1, it will be sufficient to present the document in English or in the language of the destination country. Paper or digital certificates available on the smart device will be accepted.
The amendments also stipulate that children under the age of 12 arriving in Latvia must not present a document with a negative test result, but will be subject to the same self-isolation requirements as their companions. If the person accompanying the child does not need to be isolated, the child will not have to.
In the future, for the epidemiological situation of the country to be recognized as safe, the morbidity in it in a period of two weeks will not exceed 75 cases per 100,000. population. Now this requirement is 50 cases per 100,000. population.
The current prohibition to enter Latvia without a valid reason, the requirement to carry out a test before and after the trip and the requirement to isolate vaccinated or sick people only apply to people who come from countries where the risk of infection is particularly high.
Unvaccinated, unvaccinated and negative COVID-negative people will be able to enter Latvia without good reason from the European Union, the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, as well as from low-risk third countries, but unvaccinated people They will have a trip to be tested and quarantined upon arrival. Returnees from third countries where the risk of infection is high will need to take the COVID-19 test upon arrival in Latvia.
