Entry requirements to Ecuador: there are changes since october

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From the end of October, the Entry requirements al Ecuador on international flights for nationals and foreigners.

After approval of the requirements to travel to Galapagos, the government of Ecuador has made some minor adjustments to the protocols, requirements and documents necessary to enter the country.

It is important to indicate that what is indicated here will be validated both by the airline as a mandatory requirement to be able to board, as it could also be required by the health authority of the country upon arrival at the Ecuador.

Entry requirements to Ecuador from October

From the 24 October these are the current requirements and protocols to travel to Ecuador:

• Any person who enters mainland Ecuador by international air must submit the Traveler's Health Declaration digitally when boarding the airline., In the following link:
  • https://encuestas.msp.gob.ec/index.php/947917?lang=es
  • If the platform is not available, you can submit the form physically.. It is worth mentioning that travelers who fill out the digital form no longer need to present the form at the point of entry to the Ministry of Health..
  • People who submit the digital form must take a screenshot of the form filling and present it to the airline at boarding, This will validate and organize in such a way that the people who presented digitally go directly to migration and in the end the people who have the physical form to deliver to the Ministry of Health staff at the point of entry..
• Every passenger entering the country, greater than 2 years must present the vaccination card against COVID-19 with at least 14 days of validity after completing the scheme O the negative result of a qualitative real-time RT-PCR test performed up to 72 hours prior to shipment to Ecuador.
  • Crew members are exempt from these requirements.
• All passengers whose point of origin, scale or transit is the India must present a negative RT test result- PCR performed until 72 hours prior to boarding the flight to Ecuador, this requirement is mandatory regardless of whether passengers are already vaccinated.
  • What's more, must undergo preventive isolation for 10 days at their homes or at any lodging site of their free choice and at the cost of the traveler, independent of the result of the diagnostic test for COVID-19 and their immigration status.
• Ecuadorian passengers who were declared INADMITTED in other countries and who return to Ecuador, they will not have to submit an RT-PCR test however, the Ministry of Public Health will carry out a rapid antigen test upon arrival in the country.
• All passengers arriving in Ecuador must report to the Ministry of Public Health the presence or absence of symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 in themselves or in their direct contacts by any means of communication..
• Any passenger who upon arrival in Ecuador presents symptoms related to COVID-19, (thermal boost, tos, general discomfort, loss of smell, loss of taste, among others.) regardless of the result of the RT-PCR test, will be evaluated by personnel from the Ministry of Public Health prior to entering the migration area.
• Anyone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and still has a positive RT-PCR test result after one month, You must present a medical certificate issued in the country of origin that guarantees your state of health if you are not in the contagion phase to enter Ecuador, as long as, have no symptoms.

We will continue to inform you if there are changes to these requirements again..

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