Vienna Airport will offer onsite coronavirus testing from tomorrow to enable passengers entering Austria to avoid having to be quarantined for 14 days, according to Reuters.

Passengers arriving at the airport have been required to present a health certificate showing a negative Covid-19 result which is no older than four days, or go into quarantine.

Passengers can have a molecular biological Covid-19 test at the airport, and get the result in two to three hours, the airport said.

“Air travel, whether business journeys or urgent trips [...] will thus become safer and easier,” it added.

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