Bulgaria Puts Turkey on the Red List

With the Omicron variant, the coronavirus causes new records to be broken in the number of cases all over the world. As the number of cases and hospitalizations continue to increase, countries have started to reintroduce some of the measures we saw at the beginning of the epidemic. Finally, the neighboring country Bulgaria, included some countries, including Turkey, on the red list..

In the regulation published on the website of the Bulgarian Ministry of Health, it was announced that Turkey, North Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, Luxembourg, Israel, Kuwait, Qatar and Lebanon were included in the red list. Measures to be applied to countries added to the red list, It will be effective from 19 January.

It will not be possible to enter Bulgaria from Turkey:

With the new decision taken by the Bulgarian Ministry of Health, those coming from these countries, including Turkey, (except transit passes) They will not be able to enter Bulgaria. Bulgarian citizens, residence permit holders, EU citizens coming from EU countries, medical officers, humanitarians, official delegation members, seasonal workers, people with special permission by the Ministry and students will be exempted from this issue.

Bulgarian citizens and those with a residence permit in the country are valid for not being subject to quarantine on their return from the red list countries. vaccination certificate and made no later than 72 hours before travel negative PCR test will have to show. Children in the 12-18 age group from the countries on the red list will be able to enter the country with a negative PCR test. Those who do not have the test will be quarantined for 10 days. Children under the age of 12 will not be subject to the rule.