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Several federal states agreed to ban tourist accommodation from domestic areas with a high number of corona infections. The federal and state resolution states that people from such risk areas can only stay in hotels and restaurants if they can present a negative corona test. The test may have been performed no more than 48 hours prior to arrival.
According to the document available to SPIEGEL, at least eleven countries want to adhere to the regulation. Countries Bremen, Sedan, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower saxony Y Thuringia submitted its own protocol statements. The representatives of Lower Saxony, for example, reserved the right to check whether the decision could be supported. In July, the heads of the state chancellery and the head of the federal chancellery had already decided on the measures.
Corona risk areas are districts in which there have been more than 50 new corona infections per 100,000 residents in the last seven days. According to a current situation report from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), six districts exceeded the critical mean value: Hamm, Remscheid, Vechta and the Berlin districts of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Mitte, Neukölln and Tempelhof-Schöneberg. Residents of these places would currently be affected by the hotel ban.
Therefore, the regulation only applies to travel for tourist purposes in commercial accommodation establishments. Family visits are expressly excluded, as are transportation services.
First, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) announced that his state was introducing mandatory tests for travelers from access points. Söder explained that this meant “a de facto proof obligation for tourists coming to Bavaria from risk areas”. This also affects the districts of Berlin, which are risk areas due to the high number of infected people. Anyone who can show a negative current corona test should continue to stay in hotels in Bavaria.
