When the certificate is required
The requirement covers all travellers, including residents, who visited a yellow-fever-risk country during the six days before arrival, regardless of city or region. Airport transit exceeding 12 hours in such a country also counts. Review every stop in the itinerary.
Certificate validity and quarantine
The international vaccination certificate becomes valid ten days after vaccination and remains valid for life. Travellers without a valid certificate may be quarantined for six days from departure from the affected country, including people unable to receive the vaccine. A certificate becoming valid during quarantine does not end quarantine early. Non-residents refusing quarantine may be denied entry.
Example and country list
If an airport connection in a listed risk country lasts 13 hours, the transit condition applies even without leaving the airport. ICA’s country table groups Africa and Latin America; consult the linked live list before travel because the list itself carries an older reference date.
Countries listed by ICA
The following is the country list displayed on ICA’s page, whose own reference date is 18 November 2022. Recheck the official page before travelling.
| Region | Countries |
|---|---|
| Africa | Angola; Equatorial Guinea; Mauritania; Benin; Ethiopia; Niger; Burkina Faso; Gabon; Nigeria; Burundi; Gambia; Senegal; Cameroon; Ghana; Sierra Leone; Central African Republic; Guinea; South Sudan; Chad; Guinea-Bissau; Sudan; Congo; Kenya; Togo; Côte d’Ivoire; Liberia; Uganda; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Mali |
| Latin America | Argentina; French Guiana; Peru; Bolivia; Guyana; Suriname; Brazil; Panama; Trinidad and Tobago; Colombia; Paraguay; Venezuela; Ecuador |
Official ICA source
Written independently from ICA’s English original. The linked source supplies the complete document and subsequent updates.