Latvia cancels two-week isolation rule for most European travelers
On June 3, the Latvian cabinet ruled that travelers from most European countries will no longer have to observe a mandatory quarantine period of 14 days after arriving.
The rules are effective immediately and are based on epidemiological data, applying to countries where the cumulative number of Covid-19 cases is below 15 per 100,000 inhabitants over the past two weeks, LSM (Public broadcasting of Latvia), writes.
"This is very good news for our economy," Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš told the press and added that this means the so-called Baltic travel bubble will be extended to most of Europe.
The rules currently apply to Estonia and Lithuania as well as Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Poland, Romania, France, Finland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Norway, Switzerland, Cyprus, Greece, Iceland, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Liechtenstein.
Latvian Economics Minister Jānis Vitenbergs said that the removal of self-isolation rules will be a huge relief to the Latvian tourism industry, but that the state's Investment and Development Agency of Latvia will have to work hard to attract foreign tourists to Latvia.
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