Austria is abandoning AstraZenece and introducing new entry rules
Slovenia is also on the list of countries without quarantine, which requires appropriate proof in English or German to enter the country.
The Austrian Ministry of Health announced on Monday that a new decree on the conditions for entering the country will enter into force at midnight. It will continue to be necessary to enter the state electronically registered address https://entry.ptc.gv.at. Daily migrants have to renew such an application every 28 days, the Austrian news agency APA also reported on Monday.
“In many countries, the number of infections is decreasing, so in parallel with the opening of countries, we can also apply for relief when entering Austria,” said the Austrian Minister of Health Wolfgang Mückstein. He added that Austria will recognize all covid-19 vaccines so far recognized by the European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization. According to the Austrian news agency, Austria does not currently recognize the Russian vaccine Sputnik V, but does recognize the Chinese vaccine Sinopharm.
Quarantine on entry from high incidence areas
“When entering an area with a high incidence, quarantine will still apply, with countries with new versions of the virus even stricter rules,” announced the Austrian Minister of Health.
From now on, the list of countries for which quarantine will no longer be mandatory upon entry into Austria will include Andorra, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Liechtenstein, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, South Korea, Latvia, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and the Vatican. From all these countries, with PCT proof in English or German, it is possible to enter the country in all forms, including tourism.
Upon entry into Austria from high-risk countries or countries with a high incidence of infections, PCT proof will also be required, and quarantine will not be mandatory for vaccinated or infected people, but will be mandatory for those tested. Quarantine can be shortened after five days with new negative test results. Currently, the category includes Croatia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sweden and Cyprus.
Entry from a country with new variants of viruses, currently Brazil, India and South Africa, will only be granted to Austrian citizens or people residing in Austria, for humanitarian reasons or in case of special interest to Austria. Without exception, a negative PCR test will be required.
However, Austrian citizens and people residing in Austria who have been in one of the countries with new versions of the new virus for the last ten days will have to undergo a PCR test within 24 hours of entering the country, which could be monitored by health authorities.
Austria is giving up the AstraZeneca vaccine
Austria intends to gradually say goodbye to the covid-19 vaccine to AstraZeneca manufacturers. As the health minister said Monday night Wolfgang Mückstein, the last vaccinations with the first modified vaccine topic will be carried out in early June, there is enough vaccine in stock for other measures. The problem with the period is cited as the reason for abandoning the vaccine.
In an interview with Puls24, Mückstein explained that in the future the state will rely heavily on Pfizer and BioNTech mRNAs and Johnson & Johnson’s Modern and Vector Vaccine.
Before Austria, Norway and Sweden abandoned the vaccine due to the appearance of a rare form of blood clots. Most other European countries have restricted its use to certain age groups.
The European Commission recently announced that it had not sent new orders for AstraZeneca’s vaccine, which will expire in June. In addition, the Commission had previously initiated legal proceedings against the manufacturers for non-compliance with the contracts, as this period was not sufficient for the vaccines and did not present a plan to secure the supply.
In Italy without quarantine also people who will be vaccinated only with the first modified
Italy will also allow entry into the country without quarantine for those who will have only the first dose of covid-19 vaccine confirmed in a green certificate, the President of the Italian Parliament has announced Roberto Fico.
In an interview with the Austrian news agency APA, Fico said that he believes that Italy could also enter the country without quarantine. “for those who received the first dose in Austria”.
His Austrian counterpart Wolfgang Sobotka he mentioned that Austria could lift compulsory quarantine for newcomers later this month.
After the meeting in Vienna, the Speakers of the Italian and Austrian Parliaments called for the normalization of cross-border travel as soon as possible. Sobotka added that the lack of a digital solution should be earned at first, most likely to be satisfied with a paper-based green certificate, APA reports today.
Both Sobotka and Fico support the European European solution to this certificate, as it is necessary, according to Fico “start tourism everywhere”. His Austrian counterpart found that it was Austria and Italy “relatively harmonized” so regarding “solutions” PCT (morbid, vaccinated, tested) in a green certificate as the opening of catering activities.
Withheld directly from the European government
Regarding the conference on the future of Europe, Sobotka and Fico were kept up to the idea of a directly elected European government. “This is hard,” assessed the President of the Italian Parliament.
Above all, we should “work step by step towards more democracies”, said the politician of the Italian Five Star Movement and called for “simplifying the decision so that one country cannot block everything”. Saturday agreed that the EU’s common goal should be capable of decision-making.
Asked what good the covida-19 pandemic has brought, Fico said it is the EU’s reinforcement fund “very good” for the EU and could be European institutions “closer to the needs of citizens”.
Italy is relaxing, June is supposed to be the end of curfew
The Italian government on Monday approved a new set of easing of restrictive measures, under which the night ban on movement in the country will start an hour later than before, and on June 21 it is expected to be completely lifted. According to the new rules, service inside the bars will be possible from 1 June.
In the countries, which are marked as a yellow area due to the temperate area for the spread of the new coronavirus, so far the night ban has been in force between 10 pm and 5 am, and now it will start at 11 pm.
The restriction, which has been in force in much of Italy since November, is expected to be moved by another hour from June 7 – starting at midnight, and the government is announcing its lifting on June 21 if epidemiological conditions allow, reports the German news agency. DPA.
A government decree passed on Monday, which is due to take effect shortly, also brings with it some other relaxations. From 1 June, restaurants will be able to serve guests indoors again after 6 pm. As early as May 22, the lifts can operate again.
Italy has started to take action with the loosening of the past months so that restaurants can start serving guests on the terraces, thus restricting the flow between the countries to a greater extent. On the weekend, which is officially open, tourists from an EU country can enter the country from the week without the obligatory five-day quarantine.
The country is divided into different colored areas in terms of the epidemiological situation and the related level of measures, with red indicating the largest share for the transmission of the infection, followed by orange and yellow. Virtually all of Italy is currently yellow, only the Aosta Valley is orange.
However, the government has decided that the six countries will soon be classified as a white area, where only wearing a mask and maintaining a distance are mandatory. From 1 June, the countries of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Molise and Sardinia will turn white, and a week later Abruzzo, Veneto (Veneto) and Liguria.
The announced easing of measures is accompanied by the promotion of data on the state of the epidemic. On Sunday, the first since October last year, less than 100 covid patients died.
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