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Vienna airport is offering onsite Coronavirus tests for travellers so that they can avoid being quarantined upon entering the country if they test negative. Here are all the details. By Amitha Ameen
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Until recently and according to the Austrian government’s regulations, any and all travellers who are planning to enter the country must present a less than four-day-old COVID-19 medical certificate confirming that they are COVID-19 negative or else they will have to go through the 14-day mandatory quarantine before they can enter the country.
But on from May 4 onwards, passengers who arrive at Vienna International Airport can choose to take molecular-biological COVID-19 test or PCR tests, as they are more commonly known. This airport test will allow passengers with negative test results to avoid the two-week quarantine, which would otherwise be mandatory.
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Once the passengers are tested through a nose or throat swab, the results are then examined in an in-house laboratory situated on the ground floor of the airport. The test results are available within a time span of three hours, according to information provided on the website.
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The tests can be taken by outbound travellers as well who can use the COVID-19 test certificates to prove to visit the country’s authorities that they are not currently infected with the virus. But of course, the validity of the medical certificates for outbound travellers depends entirely on their visiting country’s regulations and requirements.
With that being said, travel to Vienna or anywhere for that matter depends largely on the current flying regulations of each country. The Austrian government has suspended all non-EU citizens from outside the Schengen area from visiting the country (at the time of writing this).
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