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Wednesday, October 07, 2020
After several federal states had already established quarantine rules for travelers to German crown hot spots, states are now taking a nationwide measure. There is a ban on accommodation for tourists from national risk areas.
The federal states have decided to ban vacationers from domestic areas with a high number of corona infections. The ban applies across the country, according to participants after an exchange conference of the heads of the state chancelleries of the federal states with the head of the chancellery, Helge Braun. In view of the partially different regulations, this should be a uniform framework.
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder announced for his country that vacationers from internal German Corona hotspots without a negative Corona test will no longer be able to stay in Bavarian hotels and restaurants as of Thursday. Therefore, the accommodation ban should apply to travelers from areas with more than 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days. The exact areas have not yet been named by the Bavarian Ministry of Health. Söder explained that this meant “a de facto proof obligation for vacationers coming to Bavaria from risk areas.” Because if you can show a current and negative corona test, you can still stay in hotels in Bavaria.
However, travelers generally have to pay for tests out of their own pocket if they do not show any signs of illness. SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach said German internal testing obligations and accommodation bans are not very helpful. “Soon we will have so many affected regions that the rule will be difficult to implement, much less controllable.” Furthermore, offers in Germany should be maintained, precisely to prevent Germans from traveling to high-risk regions abroad.
Schleswig-Holstein relaxes entry rules
Schleswig-Holstein, in particular, has recently come under fire for quarantine requirements for travelers from some Berlin municipalities and districts with a high number of infections. The Rhineland-Palatinate regulation also has a similar effect. Both state governments were willing to compromise to arrive at a uniform framework at the national level. As a result of the change conference, Schleswig-Holstein announced that it would relax its strict quarantine requirements for travelers from national corona risk areas.
The head of the chancellery, Braun, had called for a joint approach from the federal and state governments. If you have doubts that everything necessary will be done in some areas, understand that countries with low infection rates are trying to protect themselves from the spread, Braun told “Bild” newspaper. “That is understandable, but it can only be an impromptu measure, which in turn causes a lot of problems.”
The central criterion in crisis management is whether there are more than 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in a region in seven days. Based on this threshold, the federal government also classifies other states as “risk areas” for German vacationers. In Germany, the federal and state governments agreed that local countermeasures will be taken from this mark in “particularly affected areas”.
