Austria Bans UK Flights from Today 1st June 2021
A landing ban comes into force and the UK is put on the list of variant virus areas. On Monday France introduced strict new measures. German has done the same and we look at the rules in the other main mountains countries of Europe and the potential impact on summer tourism to the mountains.
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Austria the Ministry of Health has issued the new regulation and it has now come into force.
Only Austrian citizens and residents will be allowed to enter the country and they will require a negative PCR test.
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This content was published on May 18, 2021 - 17:45
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Akiko Uehara
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