Latvia travel news - Latvia Facilitates Entry Rules Beginning Today

From today, March 1st travelers from other countries will be subject to less restrictive entry requirements

Latvia travel news - Latvia Facilitates Entry Rules Beginning Today

From today, March 1st travelers from other countries will be subject to less restrictive entry requirements when they plan to visit Latvia following that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has taken the decision to ease the preventive measures that are in place to prevent the further spreading from the Coronavirus.

However, people from different countries will have to submit any of these documents to be admitted into Baltic State: Baltic State:

A valid COVID-19 vaccination certificate

An official certificate for vaccination to the disease issued by the authorities of Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, or Canada

A negative test result from a Coronavirus PCR test must not be older than 72 hours, or an antigen test that is not older than 48 hours.

The Latvian government has stated the possibility of a few changes to the rules. Children younger than 12 years old crew members, employees seafarers, mariners, and Merchant marine members, people traveling through Latvia holders of diplomatic passports, and other people are exempt in the admission requirements listed above, in visaoperations.com reports.

The Latvian Transport Ministry confirmed that the country will simplify travel procedures beginning today. It also announced that foreign citizens are allowed to travel into Latvia at any time for other than essential reasons.

"From March 1st there will be no reason that can be required to be a valid reason to travel to Latvia. In the meantime the monitoring of travelers with interoperable certifications and test results will continue to ensure that the same conditions are met for travelers regardless of the destination country," the Ministry of Transport stated in a report by the Public broadcasting from Latvia.

In addition, the authorities in Latvia have also declared they would no longer require filling out an entry declaration form will also be removed from March 1.

Despite the ongoing pandemic, the authorities of Latvia have taken these measures to ease the entry requirements for people from other nations.

"Arrivals of countries which don't have an interoperable test certificate for Covid-19 must be accompanied by an unsatisfactory Covid-19 test either for the native language in which the destination country is, or English either on paper or electronically (on electronic devices)," the Ministry pointed out.

Based on the data provided by WHO World Health Organisation (WHO) there are 649,504 people tested positive for Coronavirus in Latvia since the beginning of the epidemic, and 5,215 have died.

The numbers from the WHO has revealed that 63,560 people found positive for the virus within Latvia in the past seven days, and a total of 107 individuals have lost their lives in the course of this virus.

In spite of these numbers, officials in Latvia follow the lead of other European nations by changing their treatment of the virus believing it to be more of an infectious disease.


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