Crown crisis: Germany classifies other regions as risk areas



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Due to the large number of corona infections, Germany has almost nothing Belgium further Island and the individual regions of nine other European countries are classified as risk areas. The Robert Koch Institute updated its list of risks accordingly and removed it Welsh Y North Ireland for the first time also parts of Great Britain.

In France came the regions Loire country Y Burgundy additional. 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, only the capital Brussels was recently 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. In addition, the regions entered Ireland, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary Y Romania additional.

But there’s good news too: for Friborg (Friborg) in Switzerland and the Croatian holiday destinations Zadar and Sibenik-Knin, risk zone status has been lifted.

Poland is the only neighboring country that is not on the list

The Foreign Ministry posted a travel advisory for Belgium, Romania and Lithuania on the internet that night. The classification as a risk zone and the subsequent travel advisory are issued if the number of new corona infections exceeds the mark of 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days.

The travel advisory is not a ban, but it is intended to have a significant deterrent effect, especially for tourists. However, it also has a silver lining for consumers: it allows vacationers to cancel reservations for free.

With the new federal government decisions, 17 of the 27 EU countries are now at least partially corona risk areas, Belgium, Spain, the Czech Republic and Luxembourg are even completely. Iceland does not belong to the European Union but to the Schengen area which is free from border controls.

Poland is the only one of Germany’s nine neighboring countries that is not yet on the risk list. But the number of infections is increasing there as well. Among the nine EU countries without a corona risk area are the popular holiday countries Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus.

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