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New risk areas every week: Now there are hardly any countries left for which the Federal Foreign Office does not warn or advise against vacation travel. Romania, Tunisia, Georgia, Jordan and individual regions of other countries are now also affected.
The federal government has declared all of Romania, Tunisia, Georgia and Jordan, as well as the individual regions of seven EU countries, to be corona risk areas. The Robert Koch Institute updated its list accordingly.
The five Dutch provinces that border Germany can now be found there. Limburg was added last. Zealand, on the North Sea coast, is the only one of the twelve Dutch provinces that is not yet a risk zone.
For the first time, parts of Slovakia were declared risk zones. In Slovenia, the capital Ljubljana was added, as well as regions of Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania and Bulgaria. The Federal Foreign Office also issued a travel advisory for all of these areas.
Individual cancellation of risk area classification
But there is also good news: for the island of Corsica, which is popular with tourists, and the Brodsko-Posavska region in Croatia, the risk zone status has been lifted.
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. Each country in the world is rated individually.
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. Anyone who nevertheless travels to risk areas and returns from there still has to be quarantined for 14 days, but can be released by a negative corona test.
127 countries complete the risk area
With the new decisions of the federal government, 127 states are now totally and 15 partially as risk areas.
It is not recommended to travel to more than 40 countries, regardless of the infection situation. The reason: there are still entry restrictions, quarantine rules or a ban on leaving the EU.
The few remaining countries that are not warned or discouraged from traveling are Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Malta.
