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Due to the increase in the number of corona in Europe, the federal government has classified new regions as risk areas. In addition to France and the Netherlands as a whole, popular tourist destinations in Italy are also affected for the first time.
The federal government has classified the Netherlands, the entire French mainland and, for the first time, the regions of Italy and Poland as corona risk areas since Saturday. Furthermore, Malta and Slovakia will be included in the risk list, as well as individual regions in nine other EU countries, as announced by the Robert Koch Institute on its website.
These include eight cantons in Switzerland, including the canton of Zurich that borders Germany, areas in Sweden and Finland for the first time, and other regions in Great Britain, Ireland, Croatia, Portugal, Slovenia, and Hungary. The Federal Foreign Office was expected to issue a travel advisory for all new risk areas that night.
All of Germany’s neighboring countries are now risk zones
In France, Corsica and the Grand Est border region, which was particularly severely affected at the beginning of the corona pandemic, are the last regions of the European part of France to appear on the risk list. Of the five overseas departments, only the island of Mayotte, off Africa in the Indian Ocean, will be “risk-free”, in addition to some self-governing overseas territories.
With the addition of five Polish regions, including the metropolises of Gdansk and Krakow, none of Germany’s nine neighboring countries will be left without risk areas as of Saturday. However, unlike the French, the Polish border areas are still safe. In both regions, new border closures are feared, such as during the first wave of pandemics in spring.
Naples, Capri and Ischia were also affected
In the Netherlands, Zeeland in the North Sea is affected by the current ratings of the federal government. The whole of the Netherlands has been officially declared a risk zone.
Some regions of Italy will also be included in the risk list from Saturday. Two popular tourist destinations are affected: Campania in southern Italy with Naples as the capital, the Amalfi Coast and the islands of Capri and Ischia, and the northwestern coastal region of Liguria around Genoa.
Only a few countries without a risk zone
The classification as a risk zone occurs when a country or region exceeds the limit of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days. This now fully applies to some 130 countries and partially to more than a dozen more.
The bottom line is that now there are hardly any countries that are still completely free of risk areas and for which travel is not discouraged: Greece, Cyprus, Monaco, San Marino, Liechtenstein and the Vatican.
