The Omicron variant of the Coronavirus brings new restrictions for entering Romania for any kind of people who reach the borders of our country, regardless of how this happens, so that during a press conference that took place today, the measures were announced .
Alexandru Rafila, the Minister of Health, stated that the measures detailed below are necessary to reduce the spread of the Omicron variant in Romania, as it has already been detected in two people recently returned from South Africa, but it is possible that others are already infected in other areas of countries.
"Romanians and other citizens of the European Union coming from third countries, i.e. from outside the Union, must present, or will present, an RT-PCR test obtained no later than 48 hours before the trip. Those who are not vaccinated will be quarantined for 10 days.
Those who come from other countries, but from the European Union area, will continue to present, as until now, the green certificate attesting to the vaccination, passing through the disease in the last 180 days or the negative result of an RT-PCR test obtained with at most 72 hours before travel.
People who have not been vaccinated or who have not had the disease in the last six months, who are traveling from other European Union member states in the red zone, are to be quarantined for 10 days. If unvaccinated people who have not been through the disease do not present an RT-PCR test performed 72 hours before the trip, they will enter quarantine for 14 days."
