Traveling to Pakistan on Emirates from US (recently tested positive)

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I hope you're feeling better!

Pakistan's testing policy seems to be absolute that a negative PCR test is required for all inbound passengers (except deportees and those under 6 years old, and I assume you're neither of those). Nothing in that document, which is linked from the country's travel guidelines page, itself linked from the Emirates site, says there's any sort of exemption to this requirement, like the one allowed by the US CDC, available for people with documentation of a recent recovery from COVID.

Unless someone is aware of a policy of this nature, you may unfortunately be unable to travel until you're able to test negative on a PCR test. If you need to travel soon, it may be worth contacting one of Pakistan's listed contacts to ask about any possibility of an exemption (though you would also need to satisfy the airline and potentially the transit country).

While it's possible to test positive on PCR tests for 90 days after infection, it's more likely that it won't take that long, so it's probably worth trying to get another test to see where things stand.

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