No Quarantine FOR Fully Vaxxed Travellers

Incoming passengers to Fiji will no longer be required to book a minimum three-night stay at a Care Fiji Commitment (CFC) Certified hotel for quarantine purposes.

This was announced in the 2021-2022 Special Revised Budget.

Fiji has also removed its Travel Partner status, making it open to any visitors who meet the country’s entry requirements.

Incoming travellers, on the other hand, will be required to take a prepaid Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) within 48 to 72 hours of arriving in Fiji.

These tests could be pre-booked in one of the identified testing sites available on the test portal https://entrytestfiji.com/ before flying to Fiji.

If you fail to take the COVID-19 in-country test and fail to produce a test result, you could face a fine of up to FJ$1,000 under the Public Health Act 1935.

Minister for Commerce, Trade, Tourism and Transport Faiyaz Koya said before the restrictions were lifted on Thursday, April 7, the ministry had ensured that the portal with all testing centres where travelers may arrange a test was up and functioning.

“The conditions of coming in are that you need a negative test result, be vaccinated and for the traveler to also book through the online portal a test to be carried out in Fiji when they are here from one of the sites they live close to that’s listed on the portal,” he said.

“All that has been finalised, the portal has everything a traveler needs to know and we are good to go.”

Ministry of Health and Medical Services Permanent Secretary Dr James Fong said the ministry had conducted serious surveillance studies to assess the safe relaxing of travel restrictions in the country.

“For our relaxation drive, we do know that we are still highly protected both from vaccination and the natural immunity we had with Omicron, so this is a good time for us to open,” he said.

“We also have done serious surveillance studies, and we have already worked out that we do have a high level of protection, whether it be from vaccination or natural infection.

“This is why we are opening and this is why we have the flexibility of opening up like the way we are opening.”

Dr Fong said there were still concerns that remained that the level of protection from vaccines could go down.

“We need the booster numbers to go up, we need to vaccinate our younger children and if I can get the six years and up to be vaccinated then we can get a significant proportion of the population protected and any virus that comes in will take a long time to spread or move around.”

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