Romania to send everybody arriving from Hungary in quarantine again

From Monday on, everybody arriving in Romania from Hungary has to go into mandatory quarantine again because of the worsening coronavirus numbers. The new measure is valid not only for Hungary but also for 66 other countries which the Romanian authorities put into the epidemiological dangerous category. The only exceptions are those who were infected in the last three months or are fully inoculated.

According to index.hu, Romania enlists the countries where the number of new infections per capita was higher than in Romania in the previous two weeks in the yellow zone. In the case of Hungary, which Bucharest put on the yellow list on Friday, citizens

have to spend two weeks in mandatory quarantine from Monday.

A negative PCR test means an exemption only if the foreign citizen leaves Romania in 72 hours.

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As we reported before, Serbia allows travel from Hungary without health checks. That means that

travellers from Hungary can enter Serbia without showing a negative coronavirus test or undergoing mandatory quarantine as of Thursday,

the Serbian government said. Serbia has inoculated 513,000 of its seven million inhabitants with the US Pfizer-BioNTech, the Russian Sputnik V, and the Chinese Sinopharm vaccines, it said in a statement.

The number of coronavirus infections in Serbia on Thursday was at 400,837, and the death toll was 4,071. Earlier, Serbia has lifted travel restrictions with Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ukraine red-listed Hungary on January 23,

meaning that travellers entering from there are required to self-quarantine for two weeks, or show negative test results no older than two days upon entry. They can also leave the quarantine if their PCR tests come back negative, the news agency said. All entrants must have health insurance covering treatment for Covid-19.

In the case of Slovakia, a negative PCR test is required

to avoid a two-week-long quarantine. The test has to be carried out maximum 72 hours before crossing the border in an EU member country, and it has to be issued in English, German, Czech, or Slovak language.

As we reported before, Austria introduced new entry rules from February 10. Under the new rules, anyone wishing to enter Austria must register online in advance, Lieutenant Colonel Róbert Kiss told an online press conference on Monday. Those who have entered the country must go into home quarantine for ten days and have the option of getting a free PCR or antigen test for Covid-19 from the fifth day of quarantine, he said.

Those

exempted from the new rules include cross-border commuters, seasonal farming and forestry workers, international passenger and cargo transit, and people travelling to Austria for emergency medical treatment.

As revealed a few days ago, the Hungarian foreign minister had phone talks with his Austrian counterpart Alexander Schallenberg to discuss the country’s tightened border controls aimed at preventing the import of the new coronavirus variants.

Source: index.hu