Certificate of vaccination against COVID-19 accepted at the border

Requirement for testing and quarantine after travel:

• Current rules require all travellers arriving in Iceland from risk areas for COVID-19 Opnast í nýjum glugga to present a certificate of negative PCR-test and undergo screening at the border and again 5 days later and quarantine in between tests. If the second test is negative then quarantine is lifted. Currently, all countries and territories except Greenland are defined as risk areas.
• All arriving travellers need to pre-register at covid.is Opnast í nýjum glugga.
• Children born 2005 and later need to quarantine with their parent/guardian but are exempt from screening. Children born 2005 and later travelling alone, or if parent/guardian has an exemption, need to undergo testing after 5 days of quarantine after arrival. Children 2 years old and younger are exempt from testing but not from quarantine. Children are exempt from presenting a certificate of a negative PCR-test before departure.
• See details at covid.is Opnast í nýjum glugga.

Certificates accepted at the border for exemption of presenting a negative PCR-test, screening and quarantine:

1. Confirmation of previous COVID-19 infection:
   See requirements here Opnast í nýjum glugga.
2. Certificates of vaccination against COVID-19 that fulfil the requirements set forth by the Chief Epidemiologist. These requirements are stated later in this document.

• Certificates of vaccination with a vaccine authorized by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), that are listed here (this list is updated as needed). Certificates are accepted wheter they originate from countries within or outside the EEA-area:

1. Comirnaty; Pfizer-BioNTech
2. COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna
3. COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca
4. COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen

• Certificates from the the World Health Organization (WHO) (the International Certificate of Vaccination or the Carte Jaune/Yellow Card) is also accepted for vaccines the WHO has validated Opnast í nýjum glugga. The following is a list of vaccines validated by the WHO (this list is updated as needed):

1. Tozinameran-COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine (Comirnaty®) Pfizer/BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH.
2. COVID-19 Vaccine (ChAdOx1-S) AstraZeneca/SK Bio (SK Bioscience Co. Ltd).
3. COVID-19 (ChAdOx1-S) Vaccine AstraZeneca (Covishield™ Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd). 
4. COVID-19 Vaccine (Ad26.COV2-S) Janssen-Cilag International NV.

Certificates may be in paper or electronic format. Border control will evaluate whether a certificate is valid and will consult a representative of the Chief Epidemiologist (health care worker) as needed. The final decision of whether a certificate is valid is at the discretion of the Chief Epidemiologist. If a passenger presents a document that is deemed invalid, i.e. if any of the necessary requirements are missing, the passenger must, as other arrival passengers, undergo double testing with quarantine in between.

A vaccine certificate is required to include the following:

• Be in the Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, English or French. A document in another language can be valid if the original document accompanied by a certified stamped translation in one of the languages required.
• First name and last name (as in travel documents).
• Date of birth.
• Name of disease vaccinated against (COVID-19)
• Where and when vaccination(s) was/were performed (date(s)).
  • Vaccination must be complete; see below the required doses for full vaccination for each vaccine.
• Issuer of the certificate (supervising clinician/administering centre), with signature and stamp if the International Certificate of Vaccination.
• Vaccine administered.
• Manufacturer and batch/lot no. of vaccine.

Details regarding vaccines authorized by the European Medicines Agency: (Name of vaccine, authorization holder/manufacturer; number and interval between doses for vaccination to be complete)

• Comirnaty; COVID-19 mRNA vaccine; Pfizer/BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH; 2 doses at least 19 days apart.
• COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna; Moderna Biotech Spain S.L.; 2 doses at least 28 days apart.
• COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca (ChAdOx1-S); AstraZeneca AB; 2 doses at least 4 weeks apart.
• COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen (Ad26.COV2-S); Janssen-Cilag International NV; 1 dose.

Please note that although these certificates are accepted at the Icelandic border for exemption of border measures on arrival due to COVID-19 the same does not necessarily apply in general in other countries/territories.