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The Robert Koch National Institute of Public Health (RKI) updated a list of other European regions late Wednesday night, including Cluj in northwestern Romania, the Koroska region in Slovenia and all of Belgium.
The risk classification means that those arriving in Germany from such an area must self-quarantine for 14 days and notify the local health office. A coronavirus test can be done at the earliest after the fifth day. In the event of a negative finding, the health office can order the quarantine to be lifted.
The risk classification is jointly decided by the RKI, the Federal Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior. The first phase of the pre-decision analysis examines where there are regions (larger administrative units or entire countries) in which the number of SARS-Cov-2 infections per 100,000 registered inhabitants in the last seven days has exceeded, or areas where the number of infected still does not exceed the limit, but other conditions indicate an increased risk of infection.
In the second phase of the pre-decision deliberation, local efforts to suppress the epidemic are analyzed, including the testing capacity and the number of coronavirus tests performed.
The risk classification also involves the issuance of a travel warning by the Foreign Ministry, in which it strongly discourages German citizens from necessarily visiting the region if it is not absolutely necessary.
Unfortunately the move was expected, Portfolio wrote the possibility of this late last week:
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