Air Niugini wants passengers to show evidence

The National National

ALL passengers leaving Papua New Guinea must show evidence at check-in that they are fully vaccinated, Air Niugini says in a media statement.
Those vaccinated in PNG must produce the yellow international vaccination certificate issued by the Health Department and the green domestic vaccination certificate is not sufficient.
For passengers vaccinated overseas, the vaccination certificate issued in their country is sufficient.
The only exceptions are where:

  • THE passenger can provide evidence of a medical exemption in a form acceptable to their destination country and for any countries of transit; and,
  • CHILDREN aged below 18 (which is presently the minimum age for vaccinations in PNG) and the child is approved to travel to their destination (and for any countries of transit) unvaccinated.

The passengers travelling to or transiting Hong Kong must provide evidence of which location they were vaccinated at which for those who were jabbed here will be both the yellow and green certificates.
The yellow certificates include date of birth or passport number, but the green certificate has the name of the location where the vaccination was completed.
All passengers departing internationally will still need to complete a negative PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test in the Port Moresby airport at time of check-in.
Access to testing closes two hours prior to scheduled departure.
For flights arriving in PNG as per the pandemic order two, no person is permitted to travel to PNG unless they are fully vaccinated, a PNG citizen, permanent resident, or be under the age of 18.
If they are unvaccinated (and a PNG citizen/permanent resident, or under the age of 18), they will be required to quarantine for 14 days on arrival.
Fully vaccinated arrivals other than from high risk destination countries do not require quarantine on arrival, but will be rapid tested at the airport upon landing.
Additionally, all arriving passengers must show evidence of having completed a negative PCR test within 72 hours of the scheduled departure time of the first leg of your flight to Port Moresby.
Passengers arriving from high risk destination countries (presently India and Indonesia) will be required to quarantine for 14 days.