Turkey will allow the entry of travellers from Bangladesh from Saturday, according to the Turkish Embassy in Dhaka.
Now the passengers will be able to board flights of Turkish Airlines, among other airline companies, from Bangladesh to Turkey.
Passengers travelling from Bangladesh will have to submit a negative PCR test result taken within 72 hours before their arrival to Turkey, reports UNB.
If people – travelling from Bangladesh or those who have been in the country for the last 14 days – can prove that they were vaccinated with a minimum of two doses of vaccines which have been granted emergency use authorisation by either the World Health Organisation (WHO) or Turkey (two doses of Sinovac, BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Sinopharm; one dose of Johnson & Johnson) and 14 days have passed since the application of the last dose, will be exempted from quarantine during entry.
Those who cannot prove that they were vaccinated with a minimum of two doses of vaccines (one dose for Johnson & Johnson) – which have been granted emergency use authorisation by either the WHO or Turkey – and 14 days have passed since the application of the last dose, will need to quarantine at their residences or addresses after entering Turkey.
They will get PCR tested on the 10th day; if the test result is negative, home quarantine will be lifted.
Those who do not get PCR tested on the 10th day will stay in home quarantine for 14 days.
People whose test results come out positive will follow instructions published by the General Directorate of Public Health under the Ministry of Health of Turkey.
Passengers under 12 years of age will be exempted from submitting PCR test results and vaccination certificates.
Flight-ship crew, seafarers – identified as essential workers and truck drivers – will be exempted from submitting PCR test results and vaccination certificates.
On June 28, Turkey halted flights and direct travel from Bangladesh, Brazil, South Africa, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka due to new variants of the Covid-19.
