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NPHC registration form

Self-isolation*

COVID-19 test*

Within 48 hours before the start of the travel

10 days

A PCR test - within 72 hours before the arrival, or an antigen test - within 48 hours before the arrival.

Red and grey

Yes

Yes

Yes

Orange (yellow)

Yes

No

Yes, and a repeated PCR test on the 3-5th day of arrival

Green

Yes

No

Yes

 Country (territory)

Requirements for travellers

Countries in red and grey categories

Countries of the European Economic Area

Travellers to Lithuania will be required to complete an online registration form no earlier than 48 hours before the start of the trip and to show the confirmation (QR code) to the carrier when boarding the vehicle, or those travelling by their own transport will have to show it to the NPHC staff or other officers at the border checkpoint or passenger checkpoint. 

Frontier workers, also those crossing the border between the Republic of Lithuania and another European Economic Area country every day or every working day for work-related purpose, pupils and those transporting them to an education establishment, also students and trainees must register at least once a month, except when travelling by passenger transport.

Cruise ship passengers are not required to complete a passenger form if the ship’s crew submits a Maritime Declaration of Health to the National Public Health Centre in accordance with the International Health Regulations and Medical-Quarantine Control Regulations of the NPHC.

A COVID-19 test is mandatory (only PCR or antigen tests will be recognised; a serological antibody test result will not be recognised). Testing will not be required from those vaccinated under the full vaccination schedule or from those recovered, there are other exemptions which you can check here.

A PCR test for COVID-19 must have been taken within 72 hours before the entry to Lithuania with a negative result thereof, an antigen test must have been taken within 48 hours before the entry to Lithuania with a negative result thereof. A document evidencing negative testing must be presented to the carrier before the trip. The test for COVID-19 will be mandatory for individuals from 16 years. Foreigners arriving in Lithuania by carrier transport for humanitarian reasons will not be required to present a negative COVID-19 test result, but they will have to book a testing appointment visit within 24 hours of the arrival in Lithuania. 

Exemption will apply in the case of those travelling by their own transport: they must have a negative test for COVID-19 taken within 72 hours (calculating from the moment of sampling) before the entry to Lithuania, or a negative result of the antigen test taken within 48 hours (calculating from the moment of sampling) prior to arrival in Lithuania, or they must register within 24 hours of the arrival and take a test in Lithuania.

Frontier workers, those crossing the border between the Republic of Lithuania and another European Economic Area country every day or every working day for work-related purposes, pupils and those transporting them to an education establishment, students and trainees are required to show the confirmation of the negative result of a test for COVID-19 taken 7 days at the earliest before the return or arrival in Lithuania, when they travel by their own transport. 

10-day self-isolation is mandatory (self-isolation is not required for those fully vaccinated or with past disease; there are also other exemptions available here):

• it is allowed to go outside for a walk within the radius of maximum 1 km from the place of self-isolation while wearing protective equipment covering nose and mouth. No visits to gathering points;
• when staying with other people, it is required to self-isolate in a separate room, but those staying together do not have to self-isolate;
• it is mandatory to follow other self-isolation requirements.

The self-isolation time can be reduced by taking a COVID-19 test (PCR) on the 7th day of self-isolation at the earliest, in a mobile point, or at personal expense and having a negative response thereof.

If vaccinated individuals self-isolate because the 14-day period after the vaccination has not yet passed on the day of arrival in Lithuania, they may reduce the self-isolation period once the 14-day period has passed after the administration of the vaccine dose:

• the second dose of the vaccine under the two-dose vaccination schedule;
• one dose under the single-dose vaccination schedule;
• at least one dose administered to those with the past COVID-19 disease (coronavirus infection) confirmed by a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test result.

Please notify the NPHC of the fact that 14 days have passed of the vaccination by completing the online form at:

Those subject to self-isolation exemptions or in whose respect the self-isolation time has been shortened will have to restrict the number of their contacts for 14 days of arrival in Lithuania. It is recommended that working persons commute only between work and home if there is no possibility of working from home. As regards contacts with others, wearing protective equipment covering the nose and mouth: face masks, respirators or other means will remain mandatory, also the observance of other general instructions for the prevention of COVID-19.

The place of self-isolation can only be left at NPHC’s permission 

• to go to another place of self-isolation if it has to be changed for justified reasons (up to two times during the self-isolation period).

It will be allowed to leave the place of self-isolation at the notification of the NPHC in the following cases:

• to resit a maturity examination. It will be required to adhere to certain conditions;
• it will be allowed to leave Lithuania and the place of self-isolation before the lapse of the required period of self-isolation with prior notification of the NPHC for those living or working abroad and those who need to leave for health reasons.

It will be allowed to leave the place of self-isolation without the notification of the NPHC in the following cases:

• to make arrangements for the funeral of a close person and the transportation of the remains and/or to participate in the wake ceremony/ funeral of a close person or visit terminally ill patients;
• to go to a medical facility to have nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swab specimen collected for a COVID-19 test;
• to go to a medical facility for health care services;
• to transport those unable to take care of themselves to a medical facility for health care services;
• for those who have to go to the place required for handling legal matters;
• those who have their own wedding;
• for high-performance athletes, high-performance sports specialists, high-performance sports instructors and sports medical personnel to go to high-performance sports training, training camps, competitions and institutions or establishments related to their sports activities;
• those that have to go to state institutions, establishments and organisations when summoned by them or to go to the place required for handling legal matters.
• to go to a mobile point to have nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swab specimen collected for a COVID-19 test after prior registration with the COVID-19 Hotline at 1808 or with the NPHC, or to transport those unable to take care of themselves.
• travellers who have to go for the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine as per appointment;
• crew members employed in companies engaged in international commercial transportation or who carry out international commercial transportation by all types of vehicles to go for any doze of vaccine as per appointment.

Employees of listed occupations who travel for the purposes of work-related functions (third-country nationals arriving in the Republic of Lithuania for the purposes of work-related functions at the permission of a relevant minister), where a PCR test is taken upon arrival in Lithuania and a negative PCR test result is received, may leave the place of self-isolation to go to the place needed to handle work or business matters during working hours.

Ireland

Republic of Austria

Kingdom of Belgium

Republic of Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Kingdom of Denmark

Republic of Estonia

Hellenic Republic (including Corfu, Kefalonia, Zakynthos, Thassos, except Crete, Rhodes, and Santorini)

Republic of Cyprus

Republic of Croatia

Republic of Latvia

Republic of Poland                 

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Kingdom of Norway

French Republic (only Martinique and Guyana)

Romania

Slovak Republic

Republic of Finland

Republic of Slovenia

Swiss Confederation

Republic of Hungary

Federal Republic of Germany

Other countries

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Republic of Albania

People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria

American Samoa*

Principality of Andorra

Angola

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentine Republic

Republic of Armenia

Aruba*

Australia

Republic of Azerbaijan

Commonwealth of the Bahamas

Kingdom of Bahrain

Republic of Belarus

People’s Republic of Bangladesh

Barbados

Belize

Republic of Benin

Bermuda*

Republic of Guinea-Bissau

Plurinational State of Bolivia

Republic of Botswana

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Federative Republic of Brazil

Brunei Darussalam

Burkina Faso

Republic of Burundi

Kingdom of Bhutan

Central African Republic

Republic of Chad

Republic of Chile

Commonwealth of Dominica

Dominican Republic

Republic of Côte d 'Ivoire

Republic of Djibouti

Egypt Arab Republic

Republic of Ecuador

State of Eritrea

Kingdom of Eswatini

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Republic of the Fiji Islands

Republic of the Philippines

Gabonese Republic

Republic of Guyana

Republic of the Gambia

Republic of Ghana

Gibraltar*

Grenada

Guam*

Republic of Guatemala

Republic of Guinea

Republic of Haiti

Republic of Honduras

Republic of India

Republic of Indonesia

Republic of Iraq

Islamic Republic of Iran

State of Israel

Jamaica

Japan

Republic of Yemen

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Montenegro

United States of America

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 

Cayman Islands*

Christmas Island*

Kingdom of Cambodia

Republic of Cameroon

Canada

State of Qatar

Republic of Kazakhstan

Republic of Kenya

People’s Republic of China

Kyrgyz Republic

Curaçao*

Republic of Colombia

Union of the Comoros

Democratic Republic of Congo

Republic of the Congo

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Republic of Korea

Republic of Kosovo*

Republic of Costa Rica

Republic of Cuba

Coco islands*

The State of Kuwait

Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Kingdom of Lesotho

Republic of Lebanon

Republic of Liberia

State of Libya

Democratic Republic of Madagascar

Malaysia

Republic of Malawi

Republic of Maldives

Republic of Mali

Kingdom of Morocco

Republic of the Marshall Islands

Republic of Mauritius

Islamic Republic of Mauritania

United Mexican States

Republic of the Union of Myanmar

Federated States of Micronesia

Republic of Moldova

Principality of Monaco

Mongolia

Montserrat*

Republic of Mozambique

Republic of Namibia

New Zealand

Republic of Nauru

Federal Republic of Nepal

Federal Republic of Nigeria

Republic of Niger

Republic of Nicaragua

Sultanate of Oman

Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Palestine*

Republic of Panama

Independent State of Papua New Guinea

Republic of Paraguay

Republic of Peru

Republic of South Africa

Republic of South Sudan

French Polynesia*

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico*

Republic of Equatorial Guinea

Republic of Rwanda

Russian Federation

Sakartvelo

Solomon Islands

Republic of El Salvador

Independent State of Samoa

Republic of San Marino

Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe 

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Republic of Seychelles

Republic of Senegal

St Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Republic of Serbia

Republic of Sierra Leone

Republic of Singapore

Syrian Arab Republic

Federative Republic of Somali

Republic of Sudan

Republic of Suriname

Republic of North Macedonia

Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

The Holy See (Vatican City State)*

Republic of Tajikistan

Kingdom of the Thailand

Taiwan*

United Republic of Tanzania

Turks & Caicos Islands*

Republic of Togo

Kingdom of Tonga

Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Republic of Tunisia

Republic of Turkey

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

Republic of Uganda

Ukraine

Oriental Republic of Uruguay

Republic of Uzbekistan

Republic of Vanuatu

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Republic of Zambia

Republic of Zimbabwe

Republic of Cabo Verde

Countries in orange (yellow) category

Hellenic Republic (only Crete, Rhodes, and Santorini)

Travellers to Lithuania will be required to complete an online registration form no earlier than 48 hours before the start of the trip and to show the confirmation (QR code) to the carrier when boarding the vehicle, or those travelling by their own transport will have to show it to the NPHC staff or other officers at the border checkpoint or passenger checkpoint. 

Frontier workers, also those crossing the border between the Republic of Lithuania and another European Economic Area country every day or every working day for work-related purpose, pupils and those transporting them to an education establishment, also students and trainees must register at least once a month, except when travelling by passenger transport.

Cruise ship passengers are not required to complete a passenger form if the ship’s crew submits a Maritime Declaration of Health to the National Public Health Centre in accordance with the International Health Regulations and Medical-Quarantine Control Regulations of the NPHC.

A COVID-19 test is mandatory (only PCR or antigen tests will be recognised; a serological antibody test result will not be recognised). Testing will not be required from those vaccinated under the full vaccination schedule and from those recovered, there are other exemptions which you can check here.

A PCR test for COVID-19 must be taken within 72 hours before entry to Lithuania with a negative result thereof, an antigen test must be taken within 48 hours before entry to Lithuania with a negative result thereof. A document evidencing negative testing must be presented to the carrier before the trip.  The test for COVID-19 will be mandatory for individuals from 16 years. Foreigners arriving in Lithuania by carrier transport for humanitarian reasons will not be required to present a negative COVID-19 test result, but they will have to book a testing appointment visit within 24 hours of the arrival in Lithuania. 

Exemption applies in the case of those travelling by their own transport: they have to have a negative test for COVID-19 taken within 72 hours (calculating from the moment of sampling) before the entry to Lithuania, or a negative result of the antigen test taken within 48 hours (calculating from the moment of sampling) prior to arrival in Lithuania, or they have to register within 24 hours of the arrival and take a test in Lithuania. 

Frontier workers, those crossing the border between the Republic of Lithuania and another European Economic Area country every day or every working day for work-related purpose, pupils and those transporting them to an education establishment, students and trainees are required to show the confirmation of the negative result of a test for COVID-19 taken 7 days at the earliest before returning to or arriving in Lithuania, when they travel by their own transport. 

It is mandatory to repeat a COVID-19 test on 3-5th day of arrival. Registration is required on the Hotline website www.1808.lt or phone number 1808. Testing is not required from those who have recovered from COVID-19 disease or have been fully vaccinated, members of official delegations, and children under 12 years of age.

No self-isolation required.

Republic of Iceland

Kingdom of Spain (including Mallorca, except Fuerteventura, Tenerife, and Gran Canaria)

Italian Republic

Principality of Liechtenstein

French Republic (except Réunion, Martinique, Mayotte, and Guyana)

Portuguese Republic (except Madeira)

Kingdom of Sweden

Countries in green category

Kingdom of Spain (only Fuerteventura, Tenerife, and Gran Canaria)

Travellers to Lithuania will be required to complete an online registration form no earlier than 48 hours before the start of the trip and to show the confirmation (QR code) to the carrier when boarding the vehicle, or those travelling by their own transport will have to show it to the NPHC staff or other officers at the border checkpoint or passenger checkpoint. 

Frontier workers, also those crossing the border between the Republic of Lithuania and another European Economic Area country every day or every working day for work-related purpose, pupils and those transporting them to an education establishment, also students and trainees must register at least once a month, except when travelling by passenger transport.

Cruise ship passengers are not required to complete a passenger form if the ship’s crew submits a Maritime Declaration of Health to the National Public Health Centre in accordance with the International Health Regulations and Medical-Quarantine Control Regulations of the NPHC.

A COVID-19 test is mandatory (only PCR or antigen tests will be recognised; a serological antibody test result will not be recognised). Testing will not be required from those vaccinated under the full vaccination schedule and from those recovered, there are other exemptions which you can check here.

A PCR test for COVID-19 must be taken within 72 hours before entry to Lithuania with a negative result thereof, an antigen test must be taken within 48 hours before entry to Lithuania with a negative result thereof. A document evidencing negative testing must be presented to the carrier before the trip.  The test for COVID-19 will be mandatory for individuals from 16 years. Foreigners arriving in Lithuania by carrier transport for humanitarian reasons will not be required to present a negative COVID-19 test result, but they will have to book a testing appointment visit within 24 hours of the arrival in Lithuania. 

Exemption applies in the case of those travelling by their own transport: they have to have a negative test for COVID-19 taken within 72 hours (calculating from the moment of sampling) before the entry to Lithuania, or a negative result of the antigen test taken within 48 hours (calculating from the moment of sampling) prior to arrival in Lithuania, or they have to register within 24 hours of the arrival and take a test in Lithuania. 

Frontier workers, those crossing the border between the Republic of Lithuania and another European Economic Area country every day or every working day for work-related purpose, pupils and those transporting them to an education establishment, students and trainees are required to show the confirmation of the negative result of a test for COVID-19 taken 7 days at the earliest before returning to or arriving in Lithuania, when they travel by their own transport. 

No self-isolation required.

Republic of Malta

Portuguese Republic (only Madeira)

French Republic (only Mayotte and Réunion)