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When traveling on vacation within Germany, citizens of places with a very high number of corona infections should be prepared for considerable difficulties in autumn. Most states decided Wednesday that such vacationers can only be housed if they have a negative corona test that is no older than 48 hours.
This was announced on Wednesday after an exchange conference between the heads of chancery of the federal states with the head of the chancellery, Helge Braun (CDU). This should work for travelers from areas with more than 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days. However, five countries made different statements about the decision. Berlin and Thuringia announced that they did not want to join such an accommodation ban.
You must pay for the test yourself if you do not have symptoms.
However, the federal and state governments essentially reaffirmed a line that had already been decided in principle in late June before the summer vacation. In view of the partially different regulations, the debate should focus on a more uniform framework for the fall.
Regarding the tests, the resolution establishes: “The containment of the infection process and the tests in the health system have priority, as well as the tests to maintain the educational system and internal security.”
In this regard, these “free travel trials” could only be carried out if regional capabilities also allow it. In general, there is also no regulation that requires health insurance companies to pay exams for domestic travel. Currently, this only applies to mandatory tests for travelers returning from risk areas abroad. If you don’t have any symptoms, you generally have to pay for the test out of your own pocket, unless a doctor decides otherwise.
De facto entry ban
Bremen, Berlin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Thuringia presented protocol statements on the decision. Lower Saxony wants to see if the decision can be supported. Thuringia noted that “the assessment of the health authorities of the affected areas should be the basis and criterion for the measures taken by the travel destination areas.” The Erfurt Ministry of Health explained that there is de facto no entry ban into Thuringia. Berlin demanded to be treated “as a whole city and a unitary community” when evaluating the infection process.
In Bavaria, housing rules should also apply to districts within Berlin, as Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) said. This should also apply if the state of Berlin as a whole remains below the critical mark of 50. Specifically, the districts still have to be appointed by the Bavarian Ministry of Health.
Thuringian Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) said he was under the impression that the federal states had different positions on this issue and were not yet close to each other. He couldn’t understand why it shouldn’t accommodate everyone in an at-risk region, Ramelow said. Forcing hoteliers to evict people from home corona risk areas of the house, he described as “an interference with commercial law.”
“The rule can hardly be implemented”
SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach said German internal testing obligations and accommodation bans are not very helpful. “Soon we will have so many affected regions that the rule will be difficult to implement, much less controllable.” Furthermore, offers in Germany should be maintained, precisely to prevent Germans from traveling to high-risk regions abroad.
The central criterion in crisis management is whether there are more than 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in a region in seven days. Based on this threshold, the federal government also classifies other states as “risk areas” for German vacationers. In Germany, the federal and state governments agreed that local countermeasures will be taken in “particularly affected areas” of this brand. (SDA)
