Hungary bars travel from Africa, most of Asia over virus News , World


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BUDAPEST: Hungary's government said Sunday it was barring travel from Africa, most of Asia apart from China and Japan, and restricting entry from several European countries after worldwide spikes in coronavirus cases. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Chief of Staff Gergely Gulyas said that Hungarian health officials have placed 154 countries into three risk categories based on numbers of coronavirus infections. "We need to protect our security so that the virus is not introduced from abroad ... the level of active infection cases at home is falling, and we want to keep it like that," he told reporters in Budapest. Entry...