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In Rhineland-Palatinate, there will be a ban on accommodation for tourists from German crown risk areas from next Tuesday. As of tomorrow, the regulation of fines for incorrect information in restaurants will come into force.
State Health Minister Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (SPD) announced on Friday. Whoever does not leave their correct personal data in restaurants and is caught doing so, must pay 150 euros from now on. The Ampel-Koaliton agreed to this sum for the last time.
Business travelers and people from Rhineland-Palatinate excluded from the regulation
So far, the accommodation ban has only applied to tourists from foreign risk areas. The expansion, which will take effect on Tuesday, means that hotels, guesthouses and hostels in Rhineland-Palatinate will no longer be able to accept tourists from Corona’s risk areas within Germany, for example from Frankfurt or Berlin. Exceptions apply to travelers with a negative corona test, which, however, must not be more than 48 hours ago. Business travelers and people traveling for important private reasons are also excluded.
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The new regulation also does not apply to crown risk areas in Rhineland-Palatinate. This means that people from Rhineland-Palatinate can go on vacation to their own state, regardless of whether their district or city is a risk area.
Regions with more than 50 new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants are considered risk areas. The federal and state governments agreed earlier in the week to impose an accommodation ban on travel from German risk areas.
CDU criticizes state government approach
The opposition criticized the actions of the state government on Friday. CDU member of state parliament Marcus Klein and Christoph Gensch, health policy spokesman for the CDU state parliament group, announced that the traffic lights coalition did not offer a good image in the fight against pandemics. At the beginning of the autumn holidays, it is not entirely clear what effect the current regulations in Rhineland-Palatinate would have on Rhineland-Palatinate tourists and other travelers.
Furthermore, both politicians expressed concern about the myriad of different regulations within the federal states. They called on the state government to refrain from doing so only in the future, as was the case initially with the issue of addressing risk areas within Germany. Instead, it should advocate for uniform national regulations for quarantine regulations and designation of risk areas.
