From Monday, March 28, completely vaccinated travellers into the country will not exhaust PCR tests from the country of embarkation to allow them entry into the country throughout the Kotoka Global Airport (KIA).
President Akufo-Addo who converse this throughout his 28th nationwide handle on measures to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic acknowledged these web site visitors might per chance well per chance not be tested on arrival.
“Residents and international residents in Ghana, who’re not completely vaccinated, would, then again, want to invent a detrimental PCR test outcomes of no more than 48-hours, will undergo an antigen test upon arrival at KIA, and will be offered vaccination there.
“Ghana’s Foreign Missions were suggested to originate vaccination a requirement for visa acquisition,” he added.
At expose, KIA simplest permits completely vaccinated passengers, who’re in possession of a 72-hour detrimental PCR test result sooner than embarkation and occupy a detrimental antigen test result on arrival, entry into the country.
Ghanaian electorate and international residents in Ghana, who’re unvaccinated or not completely vaccinated for the time being, are given waivers by the Ghana Health Carrier (GHS) to allow them entry into the country throughout the KIA.
They ought to additionally occupy a 72-hour detrimental PCR test result sooner than embarkation, exhaust an antigen test on arrival, and are offered vaccination.
President Akufo-Addo acknowledged it’s price noting that the establishment of the Covid-19 trying out infrastructure at KIA by Frontier Healthcare Services Ltd, at its private price, has been key to Ghana’s skill to restrict efficiently the importation of the virus into Ghana throughout the airport.
“The efficacy of the trying out regime at KIA has won world admiration and has been applauded by all of us which occupy undergone its trying out.
“It has been one in every of the the reason why Ghana modified into as soon as not on the receiving terminate of several of the dash bans imposed by the West on the height of the pandemic, for which many African countries had been affected,” he acknowledged.
