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Fog is slowly clearing around the abruptly introduced mandatory test for travelers from Austria to Germany. Once a week, people who live in Austria and work in Germany will have to submit a negative PCR test in the future, OÖN reported. Due to current regulations in Bavaria, closure in the Rottal-Inn district, the Free State assumes the costs of a Covid 19 test for travelers on one of the test streets in the respective district once a week.
In Passau, anyone who needs a test can do so today, confirms Werner Windpassinger, press spokesman for the Passau district office. “This is the short-term solution, in the long term we still don’t know what to do next,” he says. If you want to be tested, you can do so at the test station on Haitzinger Straße in Passau. This also applies to (business) travelers from Austria or the Czech Republic. It is currently still free. “We had to find a viable solution for the new regulation quickly,” he says. According to the current state, the capacities there are sufficient, it can also be increased if necessary. Before going to the test station, interested parties should register for an appointment online at landkreis-passau.de/testzentrum.
New test station in Simbach
On Monday it was announced that there will also be a test station in the neighboring Simbach town of Braunau. Simbach and the entire Rottal-Inn district are initially closed until November 5. “We operate one test station in Pfarrkirchen ourselves, there is not enough capacity for a second one. That is why we have commissioned a company that offers a complete solution. The time of installation is not in our hands,” says Mathias Kempf, press spokesman from Rottal district. Hostal. However, the authority hopes that the first people can be tested next week. This test station should also be open to cross-border travelers in the future. However, it has not yet been regulated in the Rottal who pays the costs of the test. “At the moment the tests are free for all Bavarians, we still do not know legally what it will be like with travelers. We are still awaiting the requirements of the state government,” says Kempf.
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Magdalena Lagetar
Local editor Innviertel
