Victoria Falls is ready to Vaccinate!
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Arrival Procedures into Victoria Falls/Zimbabwe
On arrival, passengers are required to go straight to the Port Health officials, present their negative PCR test certificate and have their temperature taken. Here they will also need to present their Health Form. Once they are cleared, they will proceed to Customs and Immigration for the regular arrival procedures.
- PCR Covid tests are valid 48 hours from issuance of certificate (for both arrivals and departures), and of course, must show a negative result.
- If they have an expired Covid certificate, health officials will keep clients at the Port Health facility, and Lancet Laboratories will come to the airport to test clients. Clients will have to wait at the Port Health facility for their test results before they can proceed to Immigration (if test results are negative).
- The waiting period at the airport will be 3-4 hours for the test results.
- If clients are found positive they are not turned back but will be taken to an isolation facility, where they will be monitored depending on symptoms.
- Positive cases with severe symptoms will be taken by ambulance to quarantine at Mkhosana Clinic.
- Positive cases with mild or no symptoms may isolate/quarantine for 14 days at their own home, or the lodge/hotel where they are booked to stay (additional cost of accommodation for their own account), there will be regular checks by health authorities.
- If clients are on a private charter or a group and they need testing on arrival, pre-arrangements may be done with Lancet Laboratory. In this instance, Lancet will be waiting at the airport to conduct testing on arrival.
- It is recommended that all clients have their Covid test before arriving at a port of entry, this is to save unnecessary stress on arrival. This should be applied to private charters, self-drives, overland trucks and transfer buses.
- Lancet Laboratories will come to Ilala Lodge Hotel to test clients for onward travel, the current cost is *US$70/person.
- The laboratory recommends that all testing be done before 12noon, to ensure that clients will receive their results on the same day. If clients do testing after 13h00 then results will be available the next day by the latest 11h00.
- If clients visit the Laboratory by themselves the cost is *US$60/person.
- Clients who have had vaccines must carry proof and currently still require a negative PCR test on arrival.
*Subject to change depending on laboratory costs
