Covid Entry Check: Papua New Guinea Travel Restrictions
This Papua New Guinea dashboard provides you with information on travel restrictions, quarantine on entry, Covid-19 cases, entry requirements and green lane updates.
- Closed for Travel
- Up to 21 Days
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Workplace
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Movement
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Testing
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Contact tracing
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Facial Coverings
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Vaccination
Entry is restricted to the following travellers:
• Citizens and PRs
💉 Vaccine exemptions
Vaccinated travellers are exempt from pre-arrival Covid-19 test(s) requirement(s).
These exemptions only apply to:
Travellers with a COVID-19 vaccination certificate showing that they were fully vaccinated.
📝 Forms
You are required to complete a pre-arrival form.
Details:
Effective from 18 February, vaccinated air travellers are no longer required to present a pre-departure COVID-19 test to be allowed entry or to complete the online PNG Health Declaration. Unvaccinated foreign travellers remain banned.
For more information you may go to:
https://www.pnghdf.info
🌡️ Testing requirements
You will need a formal Medical Certificate presenting a Covid-19 test from an accepted establishment taken prior to your departure from the first embarkation point.
On Arrival you will be required to complete a test for Covid-19, the cost borne by the traveller
Details:
Travellers must have a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR test taken at most 72 hours before departure; and
- a COVID-19 vaccination certificate showing that they were fully vaccinated. Vaccines accepted are: AstraZeneca (SK Bioscience), Janssen, Moderna (Spikevax), Pfizer (Comirnaty), Sinopharm and Sinovac.
😷 Quarantine requirements
General arrivals will be required to quarantine for up to 21 days. Quarantine served at a dedicated facility (costs borne by traveller)
• Travellers must arrive at Port Moresby (POM) from Australia, Cook Isl., Fiji, Hong Kong (SAR China), Japan, Kiribati, Marshall Isl., Micronesia (Federated States), Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Isl., Tonga, Tuvalu or Vanuatu