Europe lifting lockdown restrictions but keeps coronavirus measures

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Vienna airport is offering coronavirus tests or quarantine to arriving passengers.

uropean countries have begun implementing new lockdown easing measures on Monday, offering clues to how the world can revive economies, schooling and social life.

In Austria, Vienna airport will offer on-site testing site for travellers for the first time, while in Germany, schools are opening for the first time.

Passengers landing at Vienna airport will be a Covid-19 test, so that they are not put under automatic quarantine.

The test result is back in three hours. Passengers leaving Austria can also pay for a test to show their Covid-19 status to immigration officers at their destination country.

A statement from the airport said: “Air travel, whether business journeys or urgent trips…will thus become safer and easier.”

Italy is easing its restrictions after the longest lockdown on the continent was implemented on March 9.

Four million construction and factory workers will be back on the job and restaurants will be able to start selling takeaway food.

As well as German primary and secondary schools reopening barber shops and other salons are also ending a two month shutdown.

Houses of worship and museums can also again operate from Monday while maintaining social distancing guidelines and other anti-coronavirus orders such as wearing facemasks.

Some German states are moving faster than government recommendations, and from Monday people in Saxony-Anhalt will be allowed to meet in groups of up to five. The national advice is to meet with just one person from outside your household.