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5:23 pm.: The federal government expands the list of risk areas in Europe
The federal government has declared the whole of the Netherlands, almost all of France and, for the first time, the regions of Italy and Poland as corona risk zones starting next 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 regions in Switzerland, including the canton of Zurich bordering 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 is expected to issue a travel advisory for all new risk areas.
With the addition of five Polish regions, including the metropolises of Gdansk and Krakow, to the risk list, none of Germany’s nine neighboring countries will no longer have risk areas as of Saturday.
In France, Corsica and the Grand Est border area, which was particularly affected at the beginning of the corona pandemic, are included in the risk list. In the Netherlands, Zeeland in the North Sea is the latest province to become a risk zone.
Italy, the second most popular holiday destination for Germans after Spain, is now, at least partially, on the risk list. Two very popular tourist destinations are affected: Campania in southern Italy with Naples, the Amalfi Coast and the islands of Capri and Ischia, and the northwestern coastal region of Liguria around Genoa.
