Starting Tuesday, Albanian citizens will not be able to travel to Italy for tourism reasons as a preventive measure for the further spread of the coronavirus. 

Italian Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza signed the ordinance with the new measures, where according to him, Albania is placed in zone E of restrictions, from zone D that was before. Albanian citizens will now be able to travel only for work, health, emergency or those who are residents in Italy. 

Citizens must submit a negative coronavirus test performed within the last 72 hours, quarantine for 10 days and another post-quarantine test. This decision of the Italian authorities will be in force until December 15 this year. 

Citizens can travel to Italy only for: 

-work motives, 
-health motives, 
-study motives, 
-urgency motives, 
-persons returning to their place of residence, 
-family relatives of Albanian citizens provided with a regular residence permit in Italy, 
-persons who have a proven and stable emotional relationship with citizens who are resident in Italy, 
-sportsman, technician and competition judge and escort who participate in Olympic, Paralympic certified sports activities of national interest.

Meanwhile, citizens who travel from Albania to Italy, regardless of citizenship and who have stayed there for more than 120 hours, will be subjected to a 10-day isolation, at the end of which they will perform a molecular or antigenic test. The new rules will be in force until December 15 this year. The measures also affect countries such as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Lebanon, Moldova, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia, Serbia.