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Professional Drivers are not exempted from the new regulations in Romania
Please note that new measures have entered in force in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. Professional drivers are NOT exempted from the new regulations.
Risk areas are classified as follows:
- Green areas: countries where the cumulative incidence rate of new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days is less than or equal to 1.5 per 1000 inhabitants;
- Yellow areas: countries where the cumulative incidence rate of new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days is between 1.5 and 3 per 1000 inhabitants;
- Red areas: countries where the cumulative incidence rate of new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days is greater than or equal to 3 per 1000 inhabitants.
Persons arriving in Romania from green areas are not subject to quarantine measure, nor isolation or test requirement.
Persons arriving in Romania from yellow areas - including drivers of goods vehicles and drivers of passenger transport - are subject to a 14-day quarantine. The quarantine must take place at the person's home, at a declared location or, as the case may be, at a dedicated location designated by the authorities.
Exceptions from quarantine measure:
- persons who can demonstrate proof of a full course of vaccination against COVID-19, completed at least ten days before arrival in Romania. The proof of vaccination is made by EU Digital COVID Certificate.
- persons who are in possession of a negative RT-PCR test (completed no more than 72 hours before boarding or arriving at the border if travelling independently)
- persons who have been confirmed positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus infection in the last 180 days prior to entry in Romania, for whom at least 14 days have passed from the date of confirmation to the date of entry in Romania
- persons in transit, if they leave Romania within 24 hours from the time they entered the territory of the country
- cross-border workers entering Romania from Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine or the Republic of Moldova
Persons arriving in Romania from red areas - including drivers of goods vehicles and drivers of passenger transport- are subject to a 14-day quarantine. The quarantine must take place at the person's home, at a declared location or, as the case may be, at a dedicated location designated by the authorities.
Exceptions from quarantine measure:
- persons who can demonstrate proof of a full course of vaccination against COVID-19, completed at least ten days before arrival in Romania. The proof of vaccination is made by EU Digital COVID Certificate.
- persons who have been confirmed positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus infection in the last 180 days prior to entry in Romania, for whom at least 14 days have passed from the date of confirmation to the date of entry in Romania. The proof of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection is made by EU Digital COVID Certificate.
- persons who stay in Romania for less than 3 days (72 hours) and have a negative RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 virus infection, completed no more than 72 hours before boarding or arriving at the border if travelling independently. If the persons do not leave Romania within 3 days (72 hours), they will be quarantined for a period of 14 days, starting with the fourth day following the entry on the Romanian territory. The proof of negative test for COVID-19 is made by EU Digital COVID Certificate.
- cross-border workers entering Romania from Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine or the Republic of Moldova
- persons in transit, if they leave Romania within 24 hours from the time they entered the territory of the country
For persons arriving in Romania (including drivers of goods vehicles and drivers of passenger transport) from Great Britain, Brazil, Nepal, South Africa and India, only the following exceptions from the quarantine measure apply:
- persons who can demonstrate proof of a full course of vaccination against COVID-19, completed at least ten days before arrival in Romania. The proof of vaccination is made by EU Digital COVID Certificate.
- persons who have been confirmed positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus infection in the last 180 days prior to entry in Romania, for whom at least 14 days have passed from the date of confirmation to the date of entry in Romania. The proof of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection is made by EU Digital COVID Certificate.
Please find attached the list with the classification of countries/territories according to the cumulative incidence rate of new COVID-19 (in Romanian). According to the list, Spain, Portugal and Russian Federation are in yellow zone and UK and Cyprus are in red zone.
Source: UNTRR