The Health Ministry is calling on all Slovaks and other travellers returning from Great Britain, Denmark and Norway to sign up for free PCR testing. With regards to the quickly spreading omicron variant in Britain and other countries, these people must self-isolate upon arrival in Slovakia and must not meet anybody outside of their own household until they obtain their test results.
People travelling to Slovakia from countries with a high risk of COVID-19 will need negative PCR test certificates as of Saturday (December 25) even before they board the aircraft. According to Transport Minister Andrej Dolezal (We Are Family nominee), Slovak hygienists passed a measure requiring airlines operating flights from abroad to Slovakia to demand 72-hour negative PCR tests from their passengers at check-in if they are travelling from countries listed as high-risk by the Public Health Office.
The list of Omicron high-risk countries has been also amended, with the Seychelles, Israel and Hong Kong taken off it as of Thursday (December 23). This follows from the latest directive of the Public Health Office. The list was revised based on new data. Home isolation regardless of vaccination is mandatory following a return to Slovakia from the Republic of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
