Travel Ban (Extension to All Countries)

L.N. 113 of 2022

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Travel Ban (Extension to All Countries)

(Amendment No. 4) Order, 2022

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 27(c) of the

Public Health Act, the Superintendent of Public Health has made the

following order:-

(1) The title of this order is the Travel Ban (Extension to

All Countries) (Amendment No. 4) Order, 2022 and this order shall be

read and construed as one with the Travel Ban (Extension to All

Countries) Order, hereinafter referred to as "the principal order".

(2)

This order shall come into force on 11 April 2022.

Article 2 of the principal order shall be amended as

(a) the second proviso thereof shall be substituted by the

following new proviso

"Provided further that persons may travel from

Malta to the countries listed in this proviso and from the

countries listed in this proviso to 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 Polymerase Chain

Reaction (PCR) COVID-19 test result

(a) Austria;

(b) Cyprus;

(c) Czech Republic;

(d) Denmark;

(e) Estonia;

(f) Finland;

(g) Hungary;

(h) Iceland;

(i) Ireland;

(j) Germany;

(k) Latvia;

(l) Lithuania;

(m) Luxembourg;

(n) Norway;

(o) Italy;

(p) France;

(q) Slovakia;

(r) Switzerland;

(s) Greece;

(t) Croatia;

(u) Spain;

(v) Poland;

(w) Belgium;

(x) Bulgaria;

(y) Netherlands;

(z) Canada;

(aa) Australia;

(ab) New Zealand;

(ac) South Korea;

(ad) Andorra;

(ae) Monaco;

(af) San Marino;

(ag) China;

(ah) Vatican City;

(ai) Israel;

(aj) Singapore;

(ak) Slovenia;

(al) Gibraltar;

(am) Japan;

(an) United States of America;

(ao) Portugal;

(ap) Romania;

(aq) Lebanon;

(ar) United Arab Emirates;

(as) Turkey;

(at) Jordan;

(au) Liechtenstein;

(av) Sweden;

(aw) Belarus;

(ax) Fiji;

(ay) Georgia;

(az) Faroe Islands;

(ba) Kosovo;

(bb) North Macedonia;

(bc) Moldova;

(bd) Vietnam;

(be) Libya;

(bf) Qatar;

(bg) Cuba;

(bh) Albania;

(bi) Armenia;

(bj) Saudi Arabia;

(bk) the United Kingdom;

(bl) Bahrain;

(bm) Gabon;

(bn) Kuwait;

(bo) Maldives;

(bp) Bermuda;

(bq) Rwanda;

(br) Russia;

(bs) Cape Verde;

(bt) Saint Kitts and Nevis;

(bu) Myanmar;

(bv) Malaysia;

(bw) Tunisia;

(bx) Morocco;

(by) Iraq;

(bz) Timor;

(ca) India;

(cb) Argentina;

(cc) Azerbaijan;

(cd) Belize;

(ce) Bhutan;

(cf) Cayman Islands;

(cg) Chile;

(ch) Colombia;

(ci) Djibouti;

(cj) Equatorial Guinea;

(ck) Falklands;

(cl) Indonesia;

(cm) Iran;

(cn) Jamaica;

(co) Mauritania;

(cp) Oman;

(cq) Panama;

(cr) São Tomé and Prìncipe;

(cs) Trinidad & Tobago;

(ct) Uruguay;

(cu) Bahamas;

(cv) Barbados;

(cw) Brunei;

(cx) Grenada;

(cy) Namibia;

(cz) South Africa;

(da) Sri Lanka;

(db) Thailand;

(dc) Vanuatu;

(dd) Serbia;

(de) Costa Rica;

(df) Saint Lucia;

(dg) Dominican Republic;

(dh) Bosnia and Herzegovina:";

(b) the third proviso thereof shall be substituted by the

following new proviso

"Provided further that persons who arrive to

Malta from any of the countries listed in the second

proviso without being 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 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

COVID-19 test result, shall be required to submit

themselves to a period of quarantine in terms of article

2(1) of the Period of Quarantine Order:";

(c) the fourth proviso thereof shall be substituted by the

following new proviso

"Provided further that the Superintendent of

Public Health may issue standards to give better effect to

the provisions of this order:";

(d)

the fifth and sixth provisos thereof shall be deleted;

(e) the seventh proviso thereof shall be substituted by the

following new proviso

"Provided further that persons under the age of

six (6) years who arrive in Malta from any of the countries

listed in the second proviso shall be exempt from the

requirement to be 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 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) COVID-19 test

result.".

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