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On Friday, the government announced that it would close Hungary to foreigners from 1 September, but it has already been indicated that foreign spectators could attend the final of the UEFA Super Cup. The party has now declared a prominent moment to make this clear.
Photo: MTI Photo / Zsolt Szigetváry
Starting Tuesday, Hungary will be essentially isolated from the outside world, foreign citizens will not be at all, and Hungarians can only cross the border under strict rules. The latter are subject to two weeks of official quarantine or two negative coronavirus test results within five days if at least 48 hours have elapsed between tests (we’ve written about travel rules in this article). The reason is that all this is necessary because at the end of the summer, the number of Covid-19 infections in Hungary began to increase rapidly, according to the official position, because they had been brought from abroad.
Already in the announcement, Prime Minister Gergely Gulyás was asked how this would affect the final of the UEFA Super Cup on September 24, which Bayern Munich and Sevilla are scheduled to play in front of an audience. The minister then said he saw it as a viable route for 3-3,000 Spanish and German drukkers to go directly to the match from the airport and then take them back to the airport when it was done. He mentioned that they could also link the live stadium experience at the Puskás Arena to negative coronavirus tests brought in from their departure country. The event was described as risky in the press even because Spain is a severely infected country, yellow according to the Hungarian color-coded classification still valid, that is, whoever returns home from there is in quarantine or test.
“As far as I know, if the fans are taken directly from the airport to the Puskás Arena, they wear a mask and only sit in one in three chairs, and the derby is held outdoors, there will be no serious epidemiological event.” said Béla Merkely, chancellor of Semmelweis University. in a Sunday interview.
The government has also published its new decree in the Hungarian Gazette, which makes it clear that the match will not be allowed: it has been declared a major international sporting event. Technically, this indicates that up to HUF 880 million, the Hungarian Football Association (which is of interest to UEFA) will receive a tax exemption for the match.
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