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The Czech government will lift the ban on international rail and bus transport from May 11.
From May 11 The Czech Republic will allow the transportation of passengers across the border by buses and trains, the ban lasted for approximately two months due to the pandemic of infection by the coronavirus COVID-19. Novinky reports it.
“We removed the transport restrictions. I will suggest that the government lift the ban on international rail and bus transport from May 11”, – declared Industry Minister Karel Gawlicek on Twitter.
Uvolňujeme restrikce i v dopravě. Navrhnu vládě od 11. května zrušit zákaz provozování mezinárodní drážní a autobusové dopravy. Pro překročení hranice tak bude možné využívat také autobusy nebo vlaky, které dopravci vypraví.
— Karel Havlíček (@KarelHavlicek_) May 4, 2020
The publication reports that the government approved the proposal by the Minister of Industry and Commerce on May 4.
As long as the borders of most Czech neighbors remain closed, the possibility of traveling will depend on your decisions in the near future.
The Czech Republic has banned international passenger traffic since March 14. Some carriers said they were ready to resume operations as soon as the ban was lifted.
The Czech Republic closed the borders on March 16 for an indefinite period. The Ministry of Health said that the restrictions can be applied for one or two years, if the epidemiological situation in other countries does not improve. On April 23, the government stated that they decided to weaken quarantine measures in relation to the favorable epidemiological situation.
Since April 24, the Czech government has weakened the quarantine introduced due to the coronavirus pandemic, allowing citizens to freely move around the country and travel abroad.
An outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus infection started in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. As of May 4, 3.55 million people were infected with the coronavirus worldwide, 249,000 died, approximately 1.13 million recovered, reports Johns Hopkins University.
In the Czech Republic, 7,781 people were confirmed infected, 3,786 of them were already cured and 251 died.
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