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The topic of travel in times of the Corona pandemic has become a bone of contention for some European countries in recent months: In the summer Austria's government punished travel returnees from Croatia with following quarantine, now Germany wants to place travel returnees from Austrian skiing areas under quarantine because of the COVID 19 Pandemic. Croatia suffered a bitter financial...
Read moreQuarantine regulation tilted: A German travel returnee from Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia has filed a complaint against the quarantine obligation when returning from a corona risk area and was granted justice before the Higher Administrative Court in Münster. The decision is not contestable. His argument: since the value of new infections within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants in his vacation...
Read moreIn view of the high level of coronavirus infections throughout Europe, Croatia with antigen mass testing for COVID-19 is considering to follow the Slovakian path, as reported by the Croatian media. Slovakia has opted for the test of the entire population at a cost of over 40 million, in order to avert an economic disaster, which would inevitably result in...
Read moreAnyone who still wants to travel from Germany or Austria to the Adriatic Sea to Italy, Slovenia or Croatia will hardly find their way through the jungle of mutual travel warnings in the context of the Corona Pandemic. One wrong decision, and at home, quarantine and one, sometimes two expensive PCR tests threaten. The SeaHelp editorial team once took the...
Read moreWas the whole panic around travel returnees from Croatia infected with the Coronavirus only a politically motivated "Punch and Judy show" to "punish" vacationers who did not adhere to the requirement of the Austrian government to spend their vacation in their own country? If one looks at the figures recently published by the state of Carinthia, it certainly allows this...
Read moreIt is now officially confirmed: A COVID-19 test will be obligatory for Austrians from Monday after their return from Croatia, as announced by the Austrian government as a consequence of the travel warning issued today. In plain language this means: Austrians who have not left Croatia by Sunday evening (16.08.2020), 24:00 hours, and have not crossed the border into Austria,...
Read moreAs currently reported in various Austrian media, travel restrictions for Croatia are to be lifted with effect from 16 June. This means quite obviously that anyone returning from Croatia after 16 June will no longer have to go into domestic quarantine in Austria. The news should probably also please visitors who are already planning to travel to Croatia via Corpus...
Read moreAustria's politicians, above all the Federal Minister for Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection, Rudolf Anschober (Greens), make the entry and quarantine chaos perfect. The recognition that there has been from large parts of the population and abroad for the strict implementation of the contact restrictions and the further measures to effectively contain the COVID 19 pandemic is currently...
Read moreGood news for all travellers who want to go to the Adriatic Sea or to Austria: the quarantine obligation on return trips has been abolished. "We have worked hard to ensure that the borders with Germany and our other neighbouring countries, which have similarly good health data, are opened as quickly as possible. From tomorrow, Thursday (4 June 2020, amnesty),...
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