Covid Entry Check: Qatar Travel Restrictions
This Qatar dashboard provides you with information on travel restrictions, quarantine on entry, Covid-19 cases, entry requirements and green lane updates.
- Partially Open
- Up to 7 Days
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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
As travel returns to normalcy, please be advised that the travel restrictions on this page are no longer updated regularly. As always, we recommend checking the links provided, the country's official government website or other sources before you travel. We use Google Translate for quick and timely translations, please excuse any errors. Thank you.
Entry is restricted to the following travellers:
• Citizens and PRs
• Spouse & Children of Citizens/PRs
• Other Residents (pass holders)
• Business Travellers
• Transit
• Vaccinated travellers (please see vaccine excemptions for details)
Others:
• until 18 December 2021, travellers with a FAN ID card and a 'Confirmation of Entry Permit/Fan ID registration for the State of Qatar' traveling for the FIFA Arab Cup.
💉 Vaccine exemptions
Vaccinated travellers may enter and are exempt from pre-arrival Covid-19 test(s) and quarantine requirement(s).
These exemptions only apply to:
• Nationals and residents of Qatar, EU and GCC with a COVID-19 vaccination certificate showing that they were fully vaccinated at least 14 days before arrival.
For more information you may go to:
https://covid19.moph.gov.qa/EN/travel-and-return-policy/Pages/default.aspx
📝 Forms
You must obtain advance arrival permission to board your plane. You are required to complete a pre-arrival form.
Details:
Foreign travellers must register at https://www.ehteraz.gov.qa/ at least 12 hours before arrival and obtain pre-travel approval.
🌡️ 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 PCR test taken at most 48 hours before arrival. The test result must be issued by a testing center approved by the local government.
For more information you may go to:
https://covid19.moph.gov.qa/EN/travel-and-return-policy/Pages/default.aspx
😷 Quarantine requirements
General arrivals will be required to quarantine for up to 5 days. Quarantine served at your home / hotel
Details:
Foreign travellers must undergo hotel quarantine while unvaccinated nationals and residents of Qatar or GCC citizens may serve their quarantine at home.
Reduced restrictions may apply to vaccinated travellers, please see Vaccine Exemptions for details
For more information you may go to:
https://covid19.moph.gov.qa/EN/travel-and-return-policy/Pages/default.aspx
Details:
Travellers who are arriving from or who have transited through these countries must have a Covid-19 vaccination certificate showing that they were fully vaccinated at least 14 days before arrival. They are also subject to quarantine at a hotel.
• Vaccine exemptions do not apply to these travellers
Countries:
Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka