Turkey to require negative COVID-19 test result for travel

Turkey is enacting precautions for international travel, requiring a negative COVID-19 test for passengers to enter country starting Monday until March.

Health Minister Fahrettin Koca tweeted a statement Friday saying travelers would need to present a negative result from a PCR test taken in a 72-hour window to board international flights en route to Turkey. Previously, tests weren't required for travel to Turkey.

rule would apply to all land and sea arrivals starting Wednesday. Travelers would be quarantined at ir destination if y don’t have test results.

Travelers arriving from United Kingdom, Denmark and South Africa in past 10 days would have to show a negative test result and go into mandatory quarantine for at least seven days until a second test.

Turkey has among worst infection rates in world, with a weekly aver of more than 20,000 confirmed daily infections. total death toll is 19,371, according to official statistics.