Bavaria Travelers: Metzler Angry Over “Mass Disability” – Coronavirus –

For around 900 travelers from Vorarlberg to Bavaria, the “raid-like” regulation issued by the Bavarian State Chancellery brings further hardship and therefore to the already heavily burdened economy, Metzler said Friday.

Already travel advisories in Europe are a poison for the economy, now regulation makes cross-border economic activity even more difficult, he warned. This shifts the burden of consequences onto companies. Austrian companies that employ Bavarian travelers in Austria are not affected, but Vorarlberg assembly teams, business people and service providers, for whom the Bavarian market is important, are. The regulation represents a “massive obstacle to the internal market”. He called for the immediate repeal of “this regulation hostile to the EU and companies.” “The ambush-like decrees and warnings destroy the spirit of the European community,” Metzler criticized.

As a “one-sided and unsatisfactory approach”, Economic Counselor Marco Tittler describes the obligation of travelers to Bavaria: “The new restrictions at the border are epidemiologically unjustified and severely restrict the economy in an unjustified way.”

But, according to Tittler, “we must all work together to keep infections out of factories.” The regional council also advises the use of home offices as an alternative.

As announced by Prime Minister Markus Söder, Bavaria has introduced mandatory tests for commuters from foreign corona access points; applies from today Friday. Anyone who regularly travels to the German state at least once a week from a risk area for professional or educational purposes must regularly submit corona tests to the competent authority. Germany classifies almost all of Austria as a risk zone.

“Anyone who regularly travels to Bavaria from a risk area (…) at least once a week to be there for professional or business reasons, for training purposes or to attend school or or the responsible district administrative authority from the location of the university or an agency commissioned by it not requested and immediately 1. within seven days of the first entry after October 23, 2020 and 2. thereafter regularly in each subsequent calendar week a result test for an infection with the SARS coronavirus Send CoV-2 “, says the new Bavarian entry quarantine ordinance.

The test result must be in German or English and based on a molecular biology test. The test should not be more than 48 hours. Anyone showing symptoms of Covid 19 must also report it to the Bavarian authorities.