Austria Limits Travel From Romania, Bulgaria Over Virus
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published July 08, 2020 | 07:19 PM
Austria's government announced Wednesday it was introducing travel restrictions for fellow EU members Romania and Bulgaria after a spike in coronavirus cases in both countries
Vienna, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 8th Jul, 2020 ) :Austria's government announced Wednesday it was introducing travel restrictions for fellow EU members Romania and Bulgaria after a spike in coronavirus cases in both countries.
Speaking after a cabinet meeting, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said he was issuing an "urgent appeal" to Austrians not to travel to those countries.
Returning travellers would have to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine or provide a recent negative test, he added.
Wednesday's restrictions will also apply to Moldova.
"We have seen that there are more and more imported coronavirus cases from these countries," Kurz said.
In recent weeks there had been around 170 imported cases recorded in Austria, most of them having originated in the Balkans, said Kurz.
Already last week Austria issued travel warnings for several other Balkan states, including Serbia and Montenegro, despite an EU recommendation to lift travel restrictions.
Checks along Austria's borders with Slovenia and Hungary will also be doubled, targeting travellers coming from the Balkans.
Romania on Wednesday reported 555 new infections, the biggest one-day increase yet, which Raed Arafat, an emergency department official blamed on people not respecting the rules.
"We've seen an increase in the number of campaigns denying that the virus is real," Arafat told the Digi24 tv station.
In Bulgaria, the number of weekly cases has doubled from between 500 and 550 in mid-June to more than 1,100 over the past week.
Austria has been spared the worst of the pandemic, with 18,444 cases and 706 deaths.
However, there has been a marked recent rise in infections, averaging 92 per day over the past week.
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