Coronavirus checks to be conducted according to airport, not country

Travelers arriving in Greece after departing from airports in areas with an increased number of coronavirus cases - i.e. with a negative epidemic picture - will undergo mandatory tests and quarantine, Tourism Minister Haris Theocharis tells Kathimerini.

He explains that those airports are mentioned by name in a list (www.easa.europa.eu/SD-2020-01/Airports) that is constantly being updated by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and whose contents are published in travel advisories by the Greek Foreign Ministry.

Nevertheless, it is clear that in Greece, as well as in other countries, attention is focused on the airports of origin of incoming tourists, regardless of their nationality. The idea behind this is that the test has already taken place in the countries of the departure airports when those travelers crossed their borders: Therefore if a British...