Hungary Closes Its Borders

Starting September 1, foreign citizens may not enter the territory of Hungary without a specially justified case, Minister Gergely Gulyás has announced.

According to Gergely Gulyás, Head of the Prime Minister’s Office, the government is of the view that “the second wave of the epidemic has begun in Europe.”

He announced that "regarding border protection, Hungary is returning to the rules of the first wave."

“As a main rule, from the beginning of September, foreign citizens may not enter the territory of Hungary, only in justified cases; for Hungarian citizens coming from abroad, the requirement is 14 days compulsory home quarantine or two negative coronavirus tests,” he said, adding that these tests must be performed in Hungary. “We can only accept results if the testing takes place under controlled laboratory conditions in Hungary,” Gulyás explained.

Regarding the upcoming start of the school year, the minister said that the government is doing everything so that “schools do not have to close, and education can take place within a normal framework. The government has also decided that school closures can be assessed on an individual basis if there is a high rate of infection in an institution.”