Greece extends limits on intercontinental flights

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Greece explained on Sunday it was extending limitations on domestic and intercontinental flights right until Feb. 15 and Feb. 22 respectively to enable suppress the unfold of Covid-19.

Less than the restrictions travellers traveling to Greece ought to acquire a unfavorable polymerase chain reaction (PCR) examination 72 several hours prior to their arrival and undertake random testing for the coronavirus. All foreign travellers are quarantined for 7 days.

Travellers from Britain will go on to be expected to get a speedy examination upon their arrival, whilst flights from Turkey continue to be suspended, the civil aviation authority reported.

Most flights from non-EU nations are banned, with the exception of 10 nations around the world together with the British isles.

On domestic flights, only important travel is permitted.

On Friday, Greece tightened lockdown limitations in sections of the place, together with Athens, to halt the distribute of COVID-19, after a surge in bacterial infections in modern times.

Underneath the new curbs, which went into result on Saturday and will final right up until at the very least Feb 15, authorities brought forward by 3 hours a night time-time weekend curfew in locations with most infections. It will get started at 6:00 pm as an alternative of 9:00 p.m. in the course of weekends.

The country has confirmed 163,213 bacterial infections considering the fact that it detected its first case a calendar year back and 5,951 similar fatalities.