UPDATED INFORMATION FOR TRAVELERS ON ENTRY TO BULGARIA

16 July 2021

 

UPDATED INFORMATION FOR TRAVELERS ON ENTRY TO BULGARIA

From July 19th, 2021 to July 31st, 2021 on the basis of Order No. RD-01-597/16.07.2021 of the Minister of Health for tourism purposes in the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria tourists are allowed through the following border checkpoints:

  1. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Burgas Airport“;
  2. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Varna Airport“;
  3. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Plovdiv Airport“;
  4. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Sofia Airport“ (Terminal 1 and Terminal 2);
  5. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Port of Burgas“;
  6. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Port of Varna“;
  7. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Vidin“;
  8. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Vrashka chuka“;
  9. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Durankulak“;
  10. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Gyueshevo“;
  11. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Ilinden“;
  12. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Kalotina“;
  13. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Kapitan Andreevo“;
  14. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Kapitan Petko voyvoda“;
  15. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Kulata“;
  16. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Lesovo“;
  17. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Makaza“;
  18. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Malko Tarnovo“;
  19. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Oryahovo“;
  20. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Russe“ 
  21. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Stanke Lisichkovo“
  22. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Somovit-Nikopol“
  23. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Oltomantsi“
  24. BORDER CHECKPOINT „Zlatarevo“

Entry is based on an assessment of the prevalence of COVID-19 in the respective countries by criteria and placement of the countries in color zones. 

Criteria for assessing the prevalence of COVID - 19 are:

  • 14-day morbidity;
  • weekly positivity of the performed laboratory tests;
  • level of examination in the country;
  • identification of a variant of SARS-CoV-2 identified as a “worrying” variant;
  • lack of sufficient information.

The color zones are as follows:

  • Green zone;
  • Orange zone;
  • Red zone.

 

Option No. 1:  Measures for persons arriving from EU and EEA Member States and the Swiss Confederation, according to color zones:

  • Countries in the Green Zone

Persons are admitted to the territory of the country upon presentation of a valid EU digital COVID certificate for vaccination, disease or testing, or a similar document containing the same data as the EU digital COVID certificate. In case of failure to provide such, the person shall be quarantined for 10 days in the home or other accommodation where he / she has indicated that he / she will reside, with a prescription issued by the director of the respective regional health inspectorate or his / her authorized Deputy Director. The quarantine may be revoked by providing by e-mail a document showing a negative result of a polymerase chain reaction test for the detection of COVID-19 carried out within 24 hours of entry into the territory of the country or by a rapid antigen test specified in Annex No. 2 of the Order. The prescription shall be revoked within 24 hours from the presentation of the document showing a negative result from the conducted examination.

Countries in the Orange Zone:

  • Persons are admitted to the territory of the country only upon presentation of a valid EU digital COVID certificate for vaccination, disease or testing, or a similar document containing the same data as the EU digital COVID certificate. A study of COVID-19 with a rapid antigen test is performed in at least 5 percent of the total entrants from orange zone countries.

Countries in the Red Zone:

  • Persons are not allowed on the territory of the country.

Option No. 2 Measures for persons arriving from non - EU and EEA countries and the Swiss Confederation:

  • All persons arriving from non-EU and EEA countries and the Swiss Confederation and not falling into the Red Zone are considered to arrive from orange zones and are admitted to the territory of the country only upon presentation of a valid EU digital COVID vaccination certificate. or for a study carried out, or of a similar document containing the same data as the EU digital COVID certificate.

INPORTANT INFORMATION:

Children up to the age of 12 do not need to submit COVID-19 documents.

Persons arriving from countries with which the Republic of Bulgaria has reached an agreement for free passage on a reciprocal basis do not need to submit documents for COVID-19. At the moment, these are Romania and the Czech Republic.

List of countries according to Annex No. 1, to items I, 3 and 7 of Order No. RD-01-553 / 05.07.2021 of the Minister of Health

Green Zone:

  1. The Republic of Austria;
  2. The Federal Republic of Germany;
  3. The Republic of Estonia;
  4. Iceland;
  5. The Republic of Lithuania;
  6. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg;
  7. The Republic of Malta;
  8. The Republic of Poland;
  9. The Slovak Republic;
  10. Hungary;
  11. The Republic of Finland;
  12. The Republic of Croatia;
  13. The Kingdom of Denmark;
  14. The Italian Republic;
  15. The Republic of Slovenia;
  16. The French Republic;
  17. The Kingdom of Norway;
  18. The Republic of San Marino;
  19. The Principality of Andorra;
  20. The Principality of Monaco;
  21. The Vatican City State; 
  22. Czech Republic;
  23. Confederation of Switzerland;

Orange Zone: 

All countries outside the green and red zone.

Red Zone:

  1. The Republic of India;
  2. The People's Republic of Bangladesh;
  3. The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal;
  4. The Republic of the Union of Myanmar;
  5. The Kingdom of Bhutan;
  6. The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka;
  7. The Republic of Maldives;
  8. The Federative Republic of Brazil;
  9. The Republic of South Africa;
  10. The Republic of Botswana;
  11. The United Republic of Tanzania;
  12. The Republic of Seychelles;
  13. The Republic of Namibia;
  14. The Republic of Zambia;
  15. The Republic of Tunisia;
  16. The Sultanate of Oman;
  17. Malaysia;
  18. The Republic of Turkmenistan;
  19. The Republic of Tajikistan;
  20. The Kyrgyz Republic;
  21. Mongolia;
  22. The Republic of Colombia;
  23. The Republic of Chile;
  24. The Eastern Republic of Uruguay;
  25. The Argentine Republic;
  26. The Republic of Paraguay;
  27. The Plurinational State of Bolivia;
  28. The Republic of Peru;
  29. The Republic of Suriname;
  30. The Republic of Panama;
  31. The Republic of Costa Rica;
  32. The Republic of Guatemala;
  33. Belize;
  34. The Republic of El Salvador;
  35. The Republic of Cuba;
  36. The Dominican Republic;
  37. The Kingdom of Spain;
  38. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;
  39. The Republic of Fiji;
  40. The Emirate of Kuwait;
  41. The Republic of Cyprus;

 

Countries with which the Republic of Bulgaria has reached an agreement on free passage on a reciprocal basis:

  1. Romania;

Countries for which there is information about a significant negative change in the epidemic situation in the respective country or in its separate territories and specific control measures applied for the persons arriving from them:

  1. The Russian Federation*
  2. The Republic of Portugal*

*Arrivals are admitted to the territory of the country upon presentation of a valid EU digital COVID test certificate or similar document showing a negative result from a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for COVID-19 conducted up to 72 hours before entry into the country, as from the date of the testing entered in the document.

The list is subject to update and supplementation depending on the development of the epidemic situation.

Information by country from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in connection with the travel conditions at COVID-19 - https://www.mfa.bg/en/customnews/main/24737

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