PRESS RELEASE
MINISTRY OF CITIZEN POWER FOR HEALTH
The Ministry of Health announces that to strengthen the epidemiological control of diseases under international surveillance, including respiratory diseases at all entry points, Ministerial Resolution No. 346-2020 was amended, taking into account the following measures:
a) Request travelers a negative test result: Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for COVID-19, carried out in a period not exceeding 72 hours before entry into the country.
b) If the travelers come from Asia, Africa and Oceania, the negative test result: Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for COVID-19, must have been carried out in a period up to 96 hours at the time of entry to the country.
c) Non-national travelers who have fever or respiratory symptoms may not enter into the country.
d) National travelers who present fever or respiratory symptoms may enter the country, but will have to quarantine at home, complying with the protocols established by the country.
e) Travelers upon admission who present a negative test result: Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for COVID-19 and who do not present any respiratory symptoms, may have free mobility within the country and they will be followed up by telephone, by health personnel for a period of fourteen days.
Managua, Nicaragua July 22, 2020.