COVID-19 in Togo
Key Information for Travelers to Togo
- Get up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines before traveling to Togo.
- Even if you are up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines, you may still be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19.
- Follow all requirements and recommendations in Togo.
Level 4: Special Circumstances
Level 3: High
Level 2: Moderate
Level 1: Low
Level: Unknown
Learn how CDC determines the level for COVID-19 travel health notices.
What You Need to Know
- Protect yourself and others from COVID-19:
- Get up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines before you travel.
- Consider getting tested before travel.
- Follow CDC’s recommendations for wearing masks in travel and public transportation settings.
- Get tested after travel.
- Check your destination’s COVID-19 situation and travel requirements before traveling from the United States. Countries may have their own entry and exit requirements.
- Non-U.S. citizen, non-U.S. immigrants: You must show proof of being fully vaccinated with the primary series of an accepted COVID-19 vaccine before you board your flight to the United States. Only limited exceptions apply.
Travel Assessment
A tool to help you know the requirements to board a flight to the United States.
For information about COVID-19 requirements for land travel and at ferry terminals, visit the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Fact Sheet: Guidance for Travelers to Enter the U.S. at Land Ports of Entry and Ferry Terminals.
Before You Leave the United States
Make sure to plan ahead
- Get up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines before you travel.
- Find out when you can get your booster and where to get a vaccine or booster.
- COVID-19 vaccines are effective at protecting people—especially those who are boosted— from getting seriously ill, being hospitalized, and even dying.
- Check the current COVID-19 situation at your destination.
- Follow all requirements of transportation operators (such as airlines, cruise lines, buses) and any requirements, including mask wearing, proof of vaccination, or testing, at your destination.
- Requirements in other countries may differ from U.S. requirements. If you do not follow your destination’s requirements, you may be denied entry and required to return to the United States.
- If you have a weakened immune system or are at increased risk for severe disease, take multiple prevention steps to provide additional layers of protection from COVID-19 even if you are up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines.
- Talk to your healthcare provider about your risk before travel and consider delaying travel to areas with high COVID-19 levels. Even if you are up to date, you should know what precautions to take.
- If you will be visiting someone who is at higher risk of getting very sick from COVID-19, learn how to protect them.
Testing
- Consider getting tested with a viral test as close to the time of departure as possible (no more than 3 days) before travel.
- Make sure you know your test results before travel.
- Don’t travel if your test result is positive.
- Find a U.S. COVID-19 testing location near you or use a self-test.
- If you already had COVID-19 within the past 90 days, see specific testing recommendations.
- Make sure you know your test results before travel.
If you have questions about when you can travel because you were sick, tested positive, or exposed to COVID-19, see Can I Travel If.
During Travel
Protect Yourself and Others
- Follow CDC’s recommendations for wearing masks in travel and public transportation settings.
- Follow recommendations for protecting yourself and others.
- Follow all recommendations and requirements at your destination.
Before You Travel to the United States
Contact Information – ALL Travelers
All air passengers to the United States are required to provide contact information to airlines before boarding flights to the United States.
- This strengthens a travel process already in place to rapidly identify and contact people in the U.S. who may have been exposed to a communicable disease, such as COVID-19.
- Access to travelers’ contact information will allow U.S. federal, state, territorial and local health departments, and agencies to share appropriate health and public health information necessary to help keep the public safe.
Proof of Vaccination
REQUIRED
Air Travel: All non-U.S. citizen, non-U.S. immigrants traveling to the United States by air are required to show proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Only limited exceptions apply. Learn more about this requirement and accepted vaccines.
If you are not fully vaccinated and allowed to travel to the United States by air through an exception, you will be required to sign an attestation (legal statement) before you board your flight to the United States stating you meet the exception. Depending on the type of exception, you may also have to state you have arranged to take certain protective measures.
For more information, see Requirement for Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination for Air Passengers.
After Arrival in the United States
If Your Test Result is Positive or You Develop COVID-19 Symptoms
Isolate yourself to protect others from getting infected. Learn what to do and when it is safe to be around others.
Non-U.S. Citizen, Non-U.S. immigrants who are not fully vaccinated and allowed to travel to the United States by air through an exception must follow requirements of the attestation they signed before boarding their flight. For more information, see Requirement for Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination for Air Passengers.
More Information
- How CDC Determines the Level of a Destination’s COVID-19 Travel Health Notice
- US Department of State: Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP)
- Frequently Asked Questions about Travel and COVID-19
- COVID-19 Travel Recommendations by Destination
- Health Information for International Destinations
- Domestic Travel During the COVID-19 Pandemic