Hungary corrected: she was misunderstood, borders for Russian tourists remain closed

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The Hungarian Embassy in Moscow has denied a private message about easing the rules of entry for citizens of Russia, saying that it was misinterpreted, according to RBC, in its Telegram channel. Post in Facebook that said that the Russians will be able to come to Hungary and not to pass a two-week quarantine coronavirus in the presence of documents about the absence COVID-19, deleted

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The Hungarian Embassy in Moscow has denied a private message about easing the rules of entry for citizens of Russia, saying that it was misinterpreted, according to RBC, in its Telegram channel. Post in Facebook that said that the Russians will be able to come to Hungary and not to pass a two-week quarantine coronavirus in the presence of documents about the absence COVID-19, deleted.

In the Hungarian Embassy stated that the borders will not open, the conditions are restrictions on entry into the country remain the same. “Now on a tourist Schengen visa entry into the territory of Hungary is prohibited. Previously published conditions of entry, that is, the limits and conditions of entry remain unchanged,” – said the Embassy.

In Facebook of the Embassy now says that the government have introduced changes, which take effect July 15, touch “only the sanitary conditions of entry”.

Earlier, the Embassy reported that persons who are not citizens of Hungary, are obliged to undergo a medical examination upon entry into the country and pass a two-week quarantine in the absence of suspicion of coronavirus. “To avoid quarantine it is possible only in the case that the two tests for the presence of coronavirus in the past five days (with a difference of 48 hours) will show a negative result, and it will be confirmed by a document in Hungarian or English,” – said in a deleted post.

It was also reported that Russia is included in the list of countries the “yellow” zone – countries where the coronavirus situation not so serious. The Embassy of Hungary edition TourDom.ru clarified that the entry into the country is permitted only to its citizens and holders of a residence permit (permit) arriving from countries considered “green” or “yellow” categories. The RP holders have further agreed upon the statement on the website of the police. For tourists, nothing has changed.

July 1, the European Union has opened up foreign borders to 14 countries, not including in this list Russia, USA and Brazil, which are in the top 5 in the number of cases of coronavirus. The borders are open for Algeria, Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, Serbia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Uruguay. Russia from July 15 will start negotiations on resumption of air links with countries where the number of new infections within two weeks not more than 40 persons on 100 thousand, average daily gain is above 1%, and a prevalence of no more than 1.