It will be easier for athletes, especially footballers, to enter the country than for anyone else, according to the rules that go into effect on Tuesday. You can walk without problems even if you have already contracted the virus.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring, the second wave of the pandemic has arrived. The radical increase in the number of infected is forcing more and more countries to re-impose restrictions, despite the fact that the world economy has not even recovered from the effects of the spring outbreak. According to the posters, the second wave also reached Hungary. Follow our news!

The decrees on the tightening of epidemiological border control, which will take effect on Tuesday, were published in the Hungarian Gazette on Sunday afternoon.

According to this, a non-Hungarian citizen cannot enter the country from September 1, unless he has a permanent or 90-day residence permit in Hungary (in which case family members can also enter), if you are an athlete or sports professional, if you are a freight forwarder. , if you are on an official visit or anyone who can prove that they have been infected with Covid-19 in the last six months.

Hungarian citizens or their foreign relatives can undergo a mandatory medical examination when they return home, and if they are suspected of being infected, they will be quarantined at home or in the hospital, but if they are not suspected of being infected, they must be quarantined at home for 14 days. two negative tests 48 hours apart. Thus, the authority can allow it at home, and as Minister Gergely Gulyás said previously: in this case, a test taken from abroad will not be accepted. (Unlike, for example, athletes who attend a sports competition, which we will talk about later.)

Thus, a foreigner cannot enter the country in principle, for example, for tourism. Police officers can only grant an exemption from the entry ban to those who need a personal presence for official Hungarian procedures (let’s say they are litigating here) if they do business for those who have a government certificate, if they are students in Hungary or if they have a workplace. or if they have to attend a family event (eg lagzi, baptism, funeral). Anyone who comes to care for a family member or attends a sporting, cultural or church event, or who has any other reasonable reason to enter, may also enter. This request must be submitted in advance electronically in English or through a legal representative. Recipients of such an entry permit undergo the same procedure as Hungarian citizens, so they can undergo a medical examination. The difference is that if they are suspected of being infected, they cannot enter the country, but if there is no such suspicion, they must go into quarantine, which can only be activated with two tests as described above.

Military convoys can also travel to Hungary, but more importantly, travelers are also subject to special rules: citizens of neighboring states determined by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Hungarian citizens living there can enter Hungary during a maximum of 24 hours within 30 kilometers of the state border, but 30 kilometers cannot be left. So this affects those who work here. Similarly, up to 30 kilometers from the Hungarian state border, Hungarians living at home can freely return from abroad, provided they leave within 24 hours and have not left a strip of up to 30 kilometers from the state border in the neighboring country.

Foreign athletes attending a national sporting event can register if they can submit two negative tests in Hungarian or English from the previous 5 days, with a maximum deviation of 48 hours. However, according to the regulations, regarding UEFA protocol, it also works if someone comes in with a single negative test for a maximum of 3 days. (Presumably they are the soccer players of the international cup).

A Hungarian athlete returning from abroad must leave the quarantine for two events, 24 hours must elapse between them, and can “travel on the form provided by the sports organization” between his home and the place of sports activities during the official home quarantine .

The regulation stipulates that contact persons who have been quarantined by the authority may be exempted from the two previously issued negative tests, issued within 48 hours. The first test can be started at least four days after contact with the infected person, the regulation says.

Minister Gergely Gulyás, who chairs the Prime Minister’s Office, announced this Friday that the government will close the Hungarian state border to immigrants again, which is explained by the fact that a jump in the number of viral infections can be avoided .



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