ISLAMABAD: Turkey has announced new travel restrictions for passengers from Pakistan and other nations entering the country to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported.
Under the new measure, passengers departing from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, South Africa, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka will be quarantined for 14 days in locations determined by the governorships, according to a statement shared by Turkish Airlines on Tuesday and published by Anadolu Agency.
Passengers who have been to these countries in the last 14 days will be asked to submit “a negative PCR test report 72 hours before entering to Turkey.”
“If the PCR test result to be made at the end of the 14th day of the quarantine is negative, the quarantine measure will be terminated,” the statement said. “Passengers whose PCR test result is positive will be taken into isolation and the measure will be terminated with a negative PCR test result which will be made at the end of the 14th day.”
On Monday, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte also extended a ban on inbound travel from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates until June 15, to prevent transmission of the coronavirus variant first discovered in India that is circulating widely in that country and the region.
