Switzerland has decided that people travelling from large swaths of France, and Vienna, Austria would need to be quarantined owing to rising coronavirus cases there, but exempted immediate border regions, AFP reported.

Swiss Health Minister Alain Berset told a news conference that the government has decided to place nine of 13 French regions, including Paris, on its at-risk list, as well as Vienna in neighbouring Austria.

Switzerland considers that countries which count more than 60 new daily Covid-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants for 14 consecutive days are at-risk, and reserves the right to impose restrictions, including a 10-day quarantine.

Neighbouring France passed that bar at the end of August, sparking concern that border closures could be looming.