Closed Borders
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Waiting for Biden to declare Hungary a racist, xenophobic country:
https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-hungary-to-close-borders-starting-september-1/
Foreign citizens will not be able to enter Hungary starting September 1, the Hungarian government announced Friday, returning to a policy implemented during the first wave of the coronavirus crisis.
It’s the first country within Europe’s free movement Schengen zone to reintroduce wholesale border restrictions after the bloc reopened in past months.
The move comes after coronavirus numbers spiked in Hungary and the ruling Fidesz party’s communications chief test positive for COVID-19. On Friday the country reported a daily increase of 132 new coronavirus cases, compared to 52 new cases a week earlier.
Minister Gergely Gulyás, who serves as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s chief of staff, said that there will be multiple exemptions to the ban on foreigners entering the country, with details to be decided during a government meeting on Saturday. Hungary will maintain a corridor to allow transit through the country.
Hungarian citizens returning home from abroad will be required to either quarantine or produce two negative coronavirus tests.
