COVID-19: Border Controls and Vaccine Passports
Border Controls
Ireland will not require travelers to show proof of vaccination, proof of recovery, or proof of a negative test to enter
Romania no longer requires vaccine certificate or negative test for entry
Abu Dhabi removes mandatory on-arrival PCR tests for all travelers
Unvaccinated travelers to Malaysia must undergo five-day quarantine
Italy removes all pre-arrival testing for vaccinated travelers. Unvaccinated travelers can also enter Italy and are no longer required to quarantine
India to resume all international flights
Taiwan unlikely to cancel quarantine entirely this year
Vaccination and Travel
Australia is now open to vaccinated travelers
Singapore plans to eliminate Vaccinated Travel Lanes and reopen to vaccinated travelers from all countries
New Zealand drops self-isolation for vaccinated travelers
Malaysia to reopen borders without quarantine for vaccinated travelers
Saudi Arabia lifting quarantine for vaccinated arrivals
Dubai, Canada, Tunisia, Jordan and Cyprus remove testing requirement for vaccinated travelers
Maldives eliminated pre-arrival testing requirements for vaccinated travelers
Belize removes testing requirement for fully vaccinated travelers
Bangladesh will not require testing for those fully vaccinated
Nepal drops RT-PCR test requirement for fully vaccinated travelers
Iraq no longer requires testing for fully vaccinated arrivals
Greece to abolish passenger locator form requirement for vaccinated travelers
Vaccination and Local Life
United States
Florida is about to start telling parents not to vaccinate their kids
San Francisco drops vaccination requirement for restaurants, bars, gyms
NYC lifts vaccine mandate at venues and makes masks optional
NYC officials call for student vaccine mandate by next school year
Puerto Rico lifts all restrictions for travelers arriving on domestic flights
Universal Studios Hollywood lifts masking, vaccination and testing requirements for visitors
Broadway to maintain vaccine and mask mandate through April
Vaccine mandate rescinded for prison workers
Unvaccinated employees with exemptions allowed to return to United Airlines
3 LA police employees fired over vaccine mandate, 7 terminations pending
Canada
Ontario removes vaccine passport and will end mask mandate
Some Ontario police services keeping vaccine mandates for now
Some Ottawa businesses reserving times for vaccinated customers only
Mask, vaccine mandates to be lifted in Yukon
B.C. getting ready to end vaccine passport in coming weeks
B.C.'s health minister denies that the province is backing away from vaccine mandate for regulated health professionals
Alberta Health Services mandatory vaccination policy lifted
Prince Edward Island to abolish testing for asymptomatic close contacts
Europe
Austria suspends compulsory vaccination mandate
France to lift vaccine passport rules on March 14, the pass remains mandatory to access elderly home care centers
Germany to keep safeguards in place after March 20 - vaccine certificates may be required in “hotspots”
German parliament to vote on general vaccine mandate in April
Belgium to lift obligation to quarantine for all high risk contacts
Denmark says testing now only needed for ‘special medical reasons’
Asia
Indonesia to scrap tests for vaccinated domestic travelers
Australia and New Zealand
South Australian police to drop vaccine mandate
Fonterra's unvaccinated workers to be subject to daily testing programme
COVID-19 Domestic Stringency
Source: OurWorldInData
In Other News
In an effort to protect their population and the health system, Ecuador, Greece, and Tajikistan have imposed vaccination mandates