Change of conditions for entry from the Netherlands to the Czech Republic as of November 9, 2020
05.11.2020 / 14:00 | Aktualizováno: 04.02.2021 / 15:53
(This article expired 05.02.2021.)
The Czech Republic changed the so-called travel traffic light system on November 9, 2020, with reference to the Council Recommendation (EU) 2020/1475 of 13 October 2020 on a coordinated approach to the restriction of free movement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since November 9, 2020, the Netherlands has not been on the list of countries with a low risk of COVID-19 contagion, issued by the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, and thus the conditions for entry from the Netherlands to the Czech Republic have changed.
Obligations for an entry from red countries have applied for arrivals from the Netherlands to the Czech Republic since November 9, 2020.
In cases where the entry is done from a red country where you stayed longer than 12 hours in the last 14 days:
- you have the obligation to fill in the electronic Public Health Passenger Locator Form available at www.prijezdovyformular.cz before entering the Czech Republic, which serves as a high-risk country arrival announcement to your locally competent regional public health authority (hygiene station);
- you must submit a document confirming the above mentioned electronic form at the border control or residence check;
- you must undergo an RT-PCR test for the presence of SARS-COV-2 on own expense within 5 days of entry to the Czech territory;
- you must submit the test result without delay to the locally competent regional public health authority (hygiene station). If you do not submit the RT-PCR test result to the hygiene station within 7 days from your entry to the Czech territory, a necessary quarantine measure shall be ordered to you.
- Instead of the Czech RT-PCR test, it is possible to submit an RT-PCR test result undergone in an EU+ country. The result must not be older than 72 hours.
- During your stay in the territory of the Czech Republic, or for a period of 10 days, or until you present the result of an RT-PCR test, or until the termination of the quarantine measure, you are subject to a ban on free movement in the whole territory of the Czech Republic, with the exception of travels explicitly listed in point II of the Protective Measure of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic and you are required to wear respiratory protective equipment (face masks).
The exceptions to the obligations to fill the form and submit an RT-PCR test result are described in point I of the Protective Measure of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic.
Detailed information – detailed rules for entry of Czech citizens and foreigners to the territory of the Czech Republic can be found on the website of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic.
Protective Measure of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic valid from January 5, 2021
List of countries according to the level of risk of COVID-19 contagion
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