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Risk areas, high incidence and virus variants: the federal government has classified around 160 countries of the world in one of these three corona categories. There are changes every Sunday. This time they also affect some neighboring countries.
Due to the sharp increase in the number of corona infections, France has been a high incidence area from a German perspective since midnight on Sunday. This means that you must have a negative test result when entering Germany. Stricter entry rules still apply to the Moselle department bordering Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. The Czech Republic, the Austrian state of Tyrol, and Slovakia, on the other hand, were downgraded on the Robert Koch Institute’s risk list. Here’s what the new classifications mean in detail:
France
The neighboring country bordering Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland was previously classified as a simple risk zone, the lowest of the three risk categories. With the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants now exceeding 200 in seven days, the country is now a high-incidence area. This does not change the quarantine rules. Those entering from France must isolate themselves for ten days, but can “free themselves” from quarantine after five days.
The Moselle department is an exception. It has long been classified as a virus variant area, the highest risk category. It will remain that way for now. Anyone entering from Moselle must be quarantined for 14 days and cannot be disposed of by testing. Certain groups of people cannot enter from Moselle at all.
The new test obligation for the whole of France should not be supervised by stationary border checks, but by random checks behind the border.
Tirol
Large parts of Tyrol, such as the Czech Republic and Slovakia, have been areas of virus variants until now. The federal state, which is also popular with German tourists, is once again an easy risk area. The associated relaxation of travel restrictions is not immediately noticeable for the Tyrolese. The strictest quarantine and testing requirements apply to people who have been in an area with a virus variant in the last ten days. This applies to the Tyrolese until after Easter.
It is not yet clear what will happen to the stationary checks on the border with Tyrol. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior on Saturday, this is still being verified. Border controls were only extended for another two weeks on March 17.
Czech Republic and Slovakia
The Czech Republic and Slovakia have also been areas with variants of the virus so far, but they did not degrade as far as Tirol on Sunday. Now they are areas of high incidence due to the continuous and high number of infections. Therefore, the obligation to take the test upon entry remains in force for these two countries. Slovakia has no borders with Germany. As in the case of Tyrol, it is unclear whether the border controls with the Czech Republic will continue.
Denmark
There is also a change in Denmark. The entire country, with the exception of the autonomous islands of the Faroe Islands and Greenland, is now considered a simple risk zone. Until now, the Nordjylland and Midtjylland regions have been classified as “risk free”.
