The EU Commission is proposing stricter measures to combat the coronavirus. Among other things, travel within the European Union and from outside should be further restricted, according to the Brussels authority. It also proposed on Monday to further tighten the testing and quarantine rules. Accordingly, a new "dark red" category is to be introduced for high-risk areas with more than 500 new infections per 100.000 inhabitants within the past two weeks. Unnecessary travel to or from these areas should be strongly discouraged, said EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders. This applies not only to cross-border travel, but also to movements within a country. According to the EU Commission, travelers from the dark red areas should be required to take a PCR test before departure and to quarantine on arrival. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said: "The first recommendation is: don't travel." Most EU countries only allow urgently necessary entries and make exceptions for EU citizens and their relatives, for example, according to the ORF. But that should not be the case in the future either. The EU Commission is proposing, among other things, to make a negative PCR test within 72 hours of departure mandatory. The authority is also pushing for stricter rules for travelers from countries where particularly active virus variants have been discovered. In Austria, quarantine and testing have been mandatory since mid-December when entering from almost all countries in the world. Since mid-January, electronic registration has also been mandatory before entering Austria. In addition, according to the Foreign Ministry, a worldwide travel warning is in effect - with a handful of exceptions.