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Worldwide travel warning drops: eleven European regions are becoming risk areas
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The Federal Foreign Ministry extends its travel advisories again
The Federal Foreign Ministry expanded its travel warnings. Now all of Belgium and almost all of France are also corona risk areas. Also, Wales and Northern Ireland are the earliest parts of Great Britain.
At the end of the month, the world travel warning from the Federal Foreign Office falls. Unlimited travel is still difficult. 123 countries are still considered risk areas, and new travel advisories were added for Europe, including Belgium and Iceland.
reThe federal government has enough Belgium, Iceland and individual regions in nine other European countries declared corona risk areas due to the increasing number of infections. The Robert Koch Institute updated its list of hazards Wednesday night, which now includes Wales and Northern Ireland areas of Great Britain are also available for the first time.
In France came the regions Loire country Y Burgundy (Burgundy) added. This means that in Germany’s largest neighboring country, only the Grand Est border region, once particularly affected by the pandemic, is excluded from classification as a risk area.
In Belgium Recently, only the capital, Brussels, was included as a risk zone. The statewide expansion now also affects the border regions with North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. For the first time, the federal government took territories in the two Baltic states. Lithuania Y Estonia in the list of risks. Also came Regions in Ireland, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary Y Romania additional. For all new risk areas in Europe, the Federal Foreign Office issued travel advisories for tourists on Thursday night.
Around the same time, the general travel advisory was lifted for more than 160 countries outside the European Union and the Schengen area free from border control. Each country in the world is now rated individually. Anyone who thinks that long-distance travel will become much easier again is wrong. Almost nothing changes for the vacationer.
In the future there will be three categories of countries:
TRAVEL WARNING: It is only pronounced for those countries that exceeded the limit of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days. Currently, this applies in full to 123 countries and partially to 15.
“TRAVEL WARNING LIGHT”: Travel to 50 other countries is not recommended, regardless of infection status. The reason: there are still entry restrictions or an exit ban in the EU. This group of states includes, for example, the popular winter vacation country Thailand, where there are hardly any corona infections, but foreign tourists also have to stay out.
NO WARNING: The bottom line is that there won’t be many countries left for which travel is neither warned nor discouraged, especially since new travel advisories are now added every few days in Europe. Meanwhile, only nine of Germany’s 26 partner countries in the EU are completely free of risk areas and travel advisories. After all, there are some popular vacation destinations: Italy, Greece, Cyprus, and Malta. Outside of Europe there are only Georgia and Tunisia. Also, there has been an exception for Turkish holiday areas in the Mediterranean for several weeks.
The global travel warning due to the corona pandemic was issued on March 17 by Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas after numerous borders were closed, air connections were cut, and tens of thousands of Germans were trapped. abroad. On June 15, regulation was lifted for most European countries. It is now completely removed.
The travel warning is not a ban, but it should have the greatest possible deterrent effect on tourists. The good news for vacationers: they can cancel a trip already booked if their destination is declared a risk zone. The bad: returnees from risky areas (now consistent with travel advisories) need to be screened and quarantined until the result is there.
Starting October 15, the test shouldn’t take place until five days after your return. That can mean a quarantine for almost a week.
More relaxed situation in Freiburg and parts of Croatia
With all the bad news about the growing number of infections and new travel warnings, there is also good news: For Friborg (Friborg) in Switzerland and the Croatian holiday destinations Zadar and Sibenik-Knin, the status as a risk zone was lifted. Thursday night.
