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Italy to scrap pre-travel tests for vaccinated Brits

Government
Will Payne
28 February 2022

The Italian government is poised to drop its pre-departure Covid-19 testing requirement for fully vaccinated visitors arriving from outside of the EU.

The route will run from Venice to Genoa some 366.5 miles (Credit: Jametlene Resk / Unsplash)

The move would see fully-jabbed Brits allowed entry to the country without having to show proof of a negative test from Tuesday (1 March). According to The Independent, it comes as the country prepares to end its Covid-related state of emergency.

However, unvaccinated travellers will still need to show either a negative antigen test taken up to 24 hours prior to departure, or a negative PCR test taken up to 48 hours prior to departure to gain entry.

Last week, Italy’s health minister Roberto Speranza said: "From 1 March, for arrivals from all non-European countries, the same rules will be in force as already provided for European countries.