Austria to lift coronavirus border checks with neighboring countries except for Italy

On Monday, Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said that Austria would remove all border restrictions associated with coronavirus, including quarantine of new arrivals from all its nearby countries, except Italy.

Challenberg told a news conference:

“We will lift all the coronavirus-related border and health checks in relation to seven bordering countries – those are Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. We are thereby returning to the pre-corona situation regarding these countries,”