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Health Minister Laumann has announced that the state government will decide today that testing is mandatory for those returning to North Rhine-Westphalia. The costs are reasonable for travelers.
Anyone traveling despite the often expressed appeals and appeals must take a crown test upon their return from abroad to NRW. The state government will decide on mandatory testing on Wednesday. Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) announced this in the morning.
The question of whether someone enters from a risk area, as defined by the RKI, is of little help in the current pandemic situation, Laumann said. An incidence of more than 50 in 7 days has only “almost all the countries of the world,” said the minister. That is why the state government has decided to introduce a blanket test obligation for everyone returning to NRW from abroad. The state government had previously stressed several times that travel within Germany would not be subject to any quarantine conditions or obligations.
Mandatory to travel on all modes of transport
It was agreed with the airports that rapid tests would be offered there. But anyone traveling by car or train is also required to take a test. There are numerous private providers offering rapid tests “at manageable costs,” Laumann explained.
He has no understanding for trips that are not absolutely necessary, so the obligation to prove is reasonable. If the rapid test shows a positive result, an immediate quarantine is mandatory. Then, before confirmation, a PCR test is performed.
SPD: “In the last minute”
Josef Neumann, health policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament, said of the new obligation to test: “Why does everything come at the last minute in this state government?” For more than four weeks, the country’s corona entry regulation has already been suspended. “But only one day before Christmas the Minister of Health manages to determine new rules for those who return to travel.” That is too late.
Those: wdr.de
