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The current entry regulation will be extended up to and including May 31. This was announced by the Ministry of Health yesterday. Since February 10, in addition to the registration and quarantine requirement, entrants must also present a negative CoV test result that is no older than 72 hours. If this cannot be presented upon entry, a test must be made up immediately – at the latest within 24 hours.
After entry, a ten-day quarantine is obligatory; free testing is possible after five days at the earliest. The time of swabbing may not be more than 72 hours in the case of a PCR test, and only 48 hours in the case of an antigen test. For commuters, a negative test result must be submitted every seven days – this applies to both molecular biology and antigen tests.
Landing bans also extended
The landing ban on aircraft from Brazil and South Africa has also been extended again by two weeks and is now in effect until April 4 for the time being, according to the Ministry of Transport. The bans had been issued to contain or prevent the spread of viral mutations. The landing ban for flights from the United Kingdom, on the other hand, expires Sunday and will not be extended.
Measures such as “nationwide testing and the advancing vaccinations” would now make it possible to lift the ban for Great Britain, said Magnus Brunner (ÖVP), state secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Climate Change. Brunner had criticized the landing bans in the past.
The landing ban for Great Britain came into force on December 21 of the previous year, followed by that for South Africa on December 28, and passenger aircraft from Brazil have not been allowed to land in Austria since January 25.
— sources: gesundheitsministerium.at/orf.at/picture: kpe.hu
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