10
Jan

Africa Union Trusted Travel (TT) code is mandatory for travelers leaving Kenya

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with Africa CDC and African Union with the technical support of panaBIOS (www.panabios.org) is implementing an online trustworthy and safe systems for travelers across Africa through the deployment of technology called Trusted Travel to strengthen the Ministry’s ability to verify, authenticate and validate test results and vaccination certificates for diseases of International public health concern such as COVID-19.

Passengers departing from Kenya are advised to visit authorized laboratories to take COVID-19 RT PCR test and be issued with Trusted Travel (TT) code that can be verified by airlines and Port Health Authorities. The passenger will receive a text message (SMS) from panaBIOS and in addition, an email from the testing laboratory and/or admin@panabios.org with a link to guide the passenger to generate a travel code at trustedtravel.panabios.org

Departing passengers can enter the TT code on their certificates online at www.africacdc.org/trusted-travel. If the test certificate is from a jurisdictions where TT isn’t available they can use www.globalhaven.org or Global Haven via the trusted travel portal www.africacdc.org/trusted-travel to generate a travel stamp. Upon successful validation against destination country requirements, passengers are issued with a secondary travel stamp (TC code) by the system for exit approval for Kenya. Latest requirements for testing (e.g. COVID-19 test requirement must be less than 96 hours old before travel) can be obtained from www.xchange.panabios.org/countries/offers/

All COVID-19 RT PCR testing laboratories in Kenya have been on boarded to the TT system.

Passengers departing from Kenya with the exemption of those inbound will be expected to have the TT code on their test result certificates if the destination and transit airports require PCR test. Starting this Monday 11th January, 2021, NO passenger will depart from Kenya without verification of their certificate using the TT process as applicable.

DOWNLOAD THE NOTIFICATION HERE