Spain includes the whole of Austria and Croatia on the high-risk list, removing most of Finland
The Spanish Ministry of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare has updated the list of high-risk areas in the country, for travelers from which they are subject to stricter restrictions on entry upon arrival in Spain.
The list went into effect on Monday, Aug. 30, and will remain in place until Sept. 5, Sunday.
Thus, as of Monday, travelers from all over Austria and Croatia are required to present a certificate proving that they have been vaccinated with a vaccine accepted by the Spanish authorities as valid proof of travel immunity or have previously been infected with COVID-19 in recent months.
Those who are not infected can enter by sending negative test results to COVID-19.
Earlier, in last week’s list update, only the following regions of these two countries were categorized as high-risk:
- Austrian regions Kärnten, Niederösterreich, Oberösterreich, Salzburg, Steiermark, Tirol, Vorarlberg and Vienna
- Croatian City of Zagreb, Adriatic Croatia and Northern Croatia
Both EU countries recently reported an increase in coronavirus cases. According to the World Health Organization, Austria, with a population of 8.859 million, has recorded 1,339 cases in the last 24 hours. Croatia, with a population of 4,076 million, recorded 139 new cases in the same period.
Romania’s Bucureşti-Ilfov region has also been categorized as a high-risk region since August 30th.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Health, responsible for maintaining the census, removed most of Finland from the high-risk list, leaving only the Finnish regions of Helsinki-Uusimaa, Etelä-Suomi, Länsi-Suomi and Pohjoisja Itä-Suomi part of the list.
Travelers from other Finnish regions can enter Spain without requiring a certificate proving vaccination against COVID-19, recovery from the virus or negative test results.
The full list of high-risk areas in Spain looks like this:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland (Helsinki-Uusimaa, Etelä-Suomi, Länsi-Suomi and Pohjoisja-itä-Suomi)
- France (Corse, Guadeloupe, Guyane, La Réunion, Martinique, Occitanie, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-FrancheComté, Brittany, Center-Val de Loire, Grand Est, Hauts-de-France , Ile-de-France, Normandy, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Pays de la Loire)
- Germany
- Greece
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy (Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Marche, Sardegna, Sicily, Tuscany, Abruzzo, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont, Autonomous Province of Bolzano / Bolzano, Autonomous Province of Trento, Puglia ‘Aosta / Vallée d’Aosta and Veneto)
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Portugal
- Romania (Bucureşti-Ilfov)
- Slovenia
- Sweden
The situation with the coronavirus is also quite bad in Spain, although it has improved significantly since the beginning of August.
Due to a slight improvement in the situation, the rest of the EU Member States have received advice from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control to facilitate entry rules for arrivals from Spain.
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