Upon arrival at Muscat Airport crew members have to conduct PCR test and wait in a hotel for one day to obtain results, if results negative the crew member can join the vessel, otherwise a 14-days quarantine in a hotel is required until results are negative.
All vessels must anchor first in order to be inspected by sanitary authorities and receive free platique. International flights from Europe and Brazil have been suspended until now to reduce risk of infection due to the new variant of Coronavirus.
Republic of Turkey has decided to suspend flights to United Kingdom, Denmark and South Africa temporarily. Turkey will ask PCR negative test results from all the passengers coming to Turkey as from 28.12.2020. Tests must be valid for 72 hours.
As of the 6th of February, there are 29,295 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ivory Coast with 160 deaths. A Health State of Emergency was re-issued on 21st January through 28th February calling for stronger enforcement of protective health measures.
The nationwide nighttime curfew is maintained from 21:00 to 5:00 Chilean Local Time. The Ministry of Health has announced updates regarding the Step-by-Step plan, which comes into effect on the 3rd of April, at 05:00 hrs LT.
Crew Changes are allowed in Panamá, but the following restrictions apply: Local Authorities do not allow on signers coming from South America, all countries. Same applies for persons that were in transit in any country of South America.
Crew change and port activities are operating as normal. Stevedore operations continue as normal, however KBSP terminal has reduced one gang and operating with 4 Gangs.
Crew change in Tunisia restarted since November 30th, 2020. In meantime, New measures took place starting from February 1st where a compulsory 7 days confinement at hotel should be arranged.
New joiners shall get PCR test at least 72 hours before vessel departure time at the joining port (All countries, NO exception). Immigration office prohibits disembarking of all crew/passenger who have travelled to Wuhan, China in the past 14 days.
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