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Dear Colleagues,

Kindly find below an update regarding travel to USA and England

  1. Travel to the USA

Non-US citizens who in the past 14 days have been in, or transited through, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, or Zimbabwe, are not allowed to enter.

  • Passengers 2 years or older boarding flight to the USA from a foreign country, must have a negative COVID-19 test taken at most 1 day before the flight departure from the first embarkation point.
  • Passengers must complete an attestation form before departure. The form can be found at https://tinyurl.com/f39bu7dt
  • Vaccination update:

Useful links:

Passengers must complete an attestation before departure at: https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/pdf/combined-passenger-attestation-p.pdf
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  • Essential Information to enter England from overseas
    Take a PCR or LFD COVID 19 test within 2 days of departure to England. You must provide proof of a negative COVID 19 test result when you depart for England from outside the CTA. This includes UK nationals and residents, and people who qualify as fully vaccinated. Read more about COVID 19 testing before you travel to England. Fill in your passenger locator form up to 48 hours before arrival. You must declare all countries you have visited or transited through in the 10 days before your arrival on your passenger locator form. Before departure check the list of red countries, as the list can change regularly. Red list passengers (including passengers who are fully vaccinated)
  1. Provide proof of a negative COVID 19 test taken within 2 days of departure to the UK
  2. Book a managed quarantine package
  3. Complete a passenger locator form

You can only enter if you are a British or Irish National, or you have residence rights in the UK. You must enter through a designated port and quarantine in a government-approved hotel for 10 days.

Unvaccinated passengers or passengers vaccinated with unauthorized vaccines

  1. Provide proof of a negative COVID 19 test taken within 2 days of departure to the UK
  2. Book tests for days 2 and 8
  3. Complete a passenger locator form
  4. Make plans to self-quarantine in private accommodation for 10 full days after arrival (or full duration of stay if less than 10 days)

Fully vaccinated passengers who are not red-list passengers

  1. Provide proof of a negative PCR or LFD COVID 19 test taken within 2 days of departure to the UK
  2. Book a test for day 2 – this must be a PCR test
  3. Complete a passenger locator form
  4. Self-isolate on arrival and until the result of your day 2 test is known. You may only leave self-isolation if the test is negative

These measures apply to all persons (including UK nationals and residents) arriving in the UK from outside the common travel area comprising the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. The British Overseas Territories are not in the common travel area. Public health requirements may vary depending upon in which nation of the UK you are staying.

England: https://www.gov.uk/uk-border-control
Northern Ireland: https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/coronavirus-covid-19-international-travel-advice
Scotland: https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-international-travel-quarantine
Wales: https://gov.wales/arriving-wales-overseas

Failure to comply with these measures is a criminal offense and you could be fined. There are a limited set of exemptions from these measures. Check the list of exemptions carefully. You may be fined if you fraudulently claim an exemption.