{"id":10344,"date":"2020-08-20T11:33:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T15:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=10344"},"modified":"2020-08-24T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T15:40:00","slug":"new-covid-testing-rules-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/new-covid-testing-rules-in-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"New Covid testing rules in Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.covid.is\/categories\/tourists-travelling-to-iceland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new rules<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for <\/span><b>all crew and passengers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from August 19 regarding Covid testing on arrival. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rules for crew have not been officially published yet, but local handlers have confirmed that if crew stay for more than 24 hours <\/span><b>they will need to take a Covid test<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The process is different for passengers &#8211; all arriving pax will be able to choose between 14 days of self-quarantine, or a Covid test at the airport. However, those who choose to be tested will <\/span><b>still have to enter self-isolation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and be retested again 4-5 days later before they can be released. This was not previously the case. The rule applies <\/span><b>regardless of whether or not their first test was negative<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All passengers must also complete a pre-registration form before travelling at<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/covid.is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">covid.is<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Iceland&#8217;s borders are currently open to all EU\/Schengen States in addition to those countries on the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2020\/08\/07\/lifting-of-travel-restrictions-council-reviews-the-list-of-third-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EU&#8217;s &#8220;safe list.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are new rules for all crew and passengers from August 19 regarding Covid testing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":10346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[310,477,354],"class_list":{"0":"post-10344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"tag-bikf","9":"tag-birk","10":"tag-iceland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10345,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions\/10345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}