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海角直播 among 38 nations exempted from mandatory coronavirus tests for travelers to Pakistan聽

海角直播 among 38 nations exempted from mandatory coronavirus tests for travelers to Pakistan聽
FILE: Airport Security Force personnel stand guard at the international arrivals area of Islamabad International Airport, April 18, 2018. (Reuters /File photo)
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Updated 02 October 2020

海角直播 among 38 nations exempted from mandatory coronavirus tests for travelers to Pakistan聽

海角直播 among 38 nations exempted from mandatory coronavirus tests for travelers to Pakistan聽
  • Starting October 5, all international travelers will be required to present a mandatory negative COVID-19 test conducted within 96 hours of travel date
  • Visitors also have to provide traveler information through a designated mobile app or web-based form

ISLAMABAD: Starting October 5, all international travelers to Pakistan will be required to present a mandatory negative COVID-19 test conducted within 96 hours of the travel date, the ministry of health has said, exempting 38 countries, including 海角直播, from the obligatory test.
In a notification on its website, the ministry issued new standard operating procedures (SOPs) for international travelers entering Pakistan in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Besides the mandatory COVID-19 RT-PCR test, the new measures also require that visitors provide traveler contact information through a designated 鈥楾he PassTrack鈥 mobile app or an accessible web-based form.
鈥淭he app helps you to: provide mandatory information that鈥檚 required for entry into Pakistan, reduce your wait time and points of contact at the airport, provide the government of Pakistan with voluntary updates and the development of any symptoms during the 14 days after arriving in Pakistan,鈥 the ministry鈥檚 website said.
Thirty eight countries have been exempted from mandatory testing, including China, Turkey, Australia, 海角直播, Malaysia and Canada, among others.
鈥淭his list will be updated on a fortnightly basis by Ministry National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination based on disease burden of COVID-19,鈥 the ministry said. 鈥淭his list will be next reviewed on 8th October.鈥