Restrictions on foreign and domestic flights extended in Greece until April 26

Greece's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Monday announced the lifting of mandatory seven-day quarantine for airline passengers arriving in Greece for those who are permanent residents of the European Union, the Schengen Area, the United Kingdom, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Serbia, and Israel, ANA reports. 

All persons arriving in Greece from the above countries must either have a certificate (in English) issued by the relevant authority in their country of departure that they have completed vaccination at least 14 days before arrival or have a negative result in a PCR test for Covid-19 performed in the last 72 hours before arrival.

Restrictions on foreign and domestic flights until April 26 are as follows:

- Domestic flights: The Covid-19 NOTAM covers passenger flights, commercial and general/business aviation and restricts all but Essential Travel (travel for health reasons, professional/business reasons, the reunification of families and return to a permanent place of residence).

- Forbids entry into Greece of non-EU and Schengen area residents, except for essential travel. Excepted from the above are the permanent residents of the following 12 countries: United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, Rwanda, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Serbia, United States, and Israel.

- All passengers arriving in Greece from abroad (with the exception of those listed above) must self-isolate at home or the temporary place of residence listed on the Passenger Locator Form for seven days. Passengers from abroad may also be subjected to random tests for Covid-19 upon arrival. If the result of this test is positive, they must observe a 14-day quarantine.

- All arrivals from abroad must have a negative PCR test for Covid-19 done up to 72 hours before arriving in Greece.

- All passengers must complete a Passenger Locator Form at the website travel.gov.gr as must all passengers who are permanent residents of Greece and depart from the country's airports.

- For passengers from Russia, there is a maximum limit of 4,000 a week, and arrival is restricted to the airports of Athens, Thessaloniki and Iraklio.

The same exceptions apply as in the previous Covid-19 NOTAMs. 

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