Intense traffic jams at border crossings due to new measures to enter the country



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Due to the upcoming holidays and the anti-epidemic measures, which will take effect on Monday, the influx of passengers entering Serbia has increased at the border crossings. The measure according to which entry into Serbia with a negative PCR test is allowed, and for citizens who do not have it the prescribed home isolation for 10 days, will come into force on Monday, December 21, Tanjug was confirmed in the office from Prime Minister Ana Brnabic.

It takes up to half an hour to enter Serbia via Horgos, but on the Hungarian side it takes at least four hours to leave Hungary from the Reska border crossing and reach the border crossing. reports an RTS reporter from the Horgos border crossing.

There are huge crowds on the Austrian-Hungarian border and on Western European roads to Serbia in general, because many left for holidays and to avoid measures against the epidemic. In the last 24 hours, some 16,000 passengers in 4,500 vehicles entered Serbia through Horgos. The Tompa-Kelabija border crossing is also full of people.

A total of six lanes were opened at the entrance to Croatia, at the Batrovci junction. Cars wait about sixty minutes and buses up to three hours. Traffic at that junction has intensified since yesterday, when a kilometer-long column formed at one point, because at the neighboring Bajakovo junction only one lane remained open.

Foreign citizens coming to Serbia from Monday must have a negative PCR test no longer than 48 hours. As for our citizens entering Serbia, they will have to have a negative PCR test that is no more than 48 hours old or they will have to be quarantined. At the border crossing, police officers must present proof or, after a health warning, they must report to the electronic health system and remain in quarantine for the next ten days. They will be able to come out of that quarantine if they are tested somewhere in Serbia at a local institute or authorized laboratory, and if they test negative, they can come out of quarantine.

The measures do not apply to passengers, or to passengers passing through our country, in transit for the traffic of goods, but also to passengers in the border area, to citizens of Serbia working in Hungary within a radius of 30 kilometers. If they have proof that they work in Hungary or have a country, they will be able to enter or exit without a PCR test.

These measures will be in effect at the border crossings until January 10.

Read more about kovid-19 and the consequences of the pandemic in the country and the world on the page. Coronavirus



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