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Yellow Fever certificate and vaccination requirements WHO: 2020

12 Aug 2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) annually consult with individual countries State Parties to confirm or update their country's yellow fever certificate requirements for international travellers. This is also known as the countries International Certificate of Vaccine or Prophylaxis (ICVP) requirement.


On 11th August 2020, WHO published the annual update which details both countries/areas that have a risk of yellow fever transmission, and/or where there are ICVP certificate requirements for international travellers.


Fitfortravel country pages will be updated in coming weeks to reflect any changes and a news item will be published when these changes are complete. In the interim, please use the following link to access the updated information from WHO: