Period of Quarantine (Amendment No. 5) Order, 2022

L.N. 114 of 2022

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Period of Quarantine (Amendment No. 5) 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 Period of Quarantine

(Amendment No. 5) Order, 2022 and this order shall be read and

construed as one with the Period of Quarantine 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)

sub-article (2) thereof shall be deleted;

(b) sub-article (3) thereof shall be substituted by the

following new sub-article

"(3) Any person arriving to Malta from any of the

following countries shall not be required to submit

himself to any period of quarantine upon his arrival so

long as that person is 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:";

(c) the first, second and third provisos thereof shall be

deleted; and

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

following new proviso

"Provided that any person under the age of six

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

listed in this sub-article shall not be required to submit

himself to any period of quarantine upon his arrival if he is

not in possession of, either 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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