Anyone who wants to enter Austria from Bulgaria or Romania must now be in quarantine again or submit a negative corona test.

Austria is now extending the highest level travel warning to the Balkan countries of Bulgaria and Romania. This could also have fatal effects on tourism, especially in Varna and Burgas, because returnees have to present a negative corona test in Austria or be in quarantine for 14 days.

Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg and Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz declared that the reaction was urgently needed due to the recent sharp rise in the number of cases. It is still unclear what effects this will have on the flight offers of Ryanair / Lauda, ​​Wizzair, Austrian Airlines and other carriers. However, it can be assumed that one or the other vacation could be canceled due to the travel warning and the associated quarantine when returning to Austria. In particular, guest workers who have been in their homeland are to be controlled more closely. The controls of returnees from the Balkans are to be massively increased, both by land and by air. In this context, Schallenberg also pointed out that breaking the quarantine is associated with hefty penalties and that such a test should also be a criminal offense.

In Romania, however, a court overturned the isolation. According to the judges, there is no valid law on which the order is based. The government now wants to make improvements, but the opposition is putting up considerable resistance. This could also have contributed to Austria's decision.