As from next Monday the 11th of April, travellers to Malta from a red list country can now enter the country with either a recovery certificate or a negative PCR test without quarantine.
The Legal Notice published on Thursday states that: “persons may travel to Malta and from Malta as long as, upon their arrival in Malta, they are in possession of, either a vaccination certificate or a negative Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Covid-19 test performed not more than seventy-two (72) hours prior to arrival in Malta or a negative Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) performed not more than twenty-four (24) hours prior to arrival in Malta; or a certificate of recovery from Covid-19 valid for not more than one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date of the first positive PCR Covid-19 test result.”
It also states that persons who arrive in Malta without being in possession of either a vaccination certificate, or any of the above, shall be required to submit themselves to a period of quarantine in terms of article 2(1) of the Period of Quarantine Order.”
The Legal Notice advises that children under the age of 6 years arriving in Malta will be exempt from the requirement of either a vaccination certificate, negative PCR test, Rapid Test, or Certificate of Recovery. and will not be subject to quarantine.
Speaking on TVAM on Monday morning, Health Minister Chris Fearne said, as regards the further lifting of restrictions, from Sunday the 10th of April, feasts and processions may be held.
Those held outdoors will not require a vaccine certificate, neither do seated indoor activities, however standing indoor events will still require a certificate.
He also said that masks will no longer be obligatory in schools after the Easter holidays.