Germany considers Spain, Portugal and the United States
to be high-risk areas for covid since 0:00 this Saturday and tightens restrictions for travelers entering from those countries as a measure to prevent the importation of cases, after the moderate decrease in infections of the last days.
The German government had announced on Thursday the inclusion of these three countries, in addition to Finland, Monaco and Cyprus, on the list of States considered high risk, which includes a ten-day quarantine that can be shortened by presenting a negative test after five days . since arrival in Germany.
For those under six years of age, the quarantine will end five days after entering Germany without the need to take a test.
To enter the German country, every traveler over the age of six who has been in a country on this list in the last ten days must present a certificate of having received the complete schedule of the covid vaccine or of having passed the coronavirus or a negative test. Meanwhile, Austria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belize and Malaysia
ceased to be “an area with a particularly high risk of contagion due to the widespread presence of a certain variant of SARS-CoV-2” .
This list includes, in addition to the recently incorporated countries, another fifty, including more than half of all those in the European Union, and for Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela.
On the other hand, since midnight last Sunday, the United Kingdom joined the list of risk areas for variants of the virus – in this case from the omicron – which already included South Africa and seven other countries in southern Africa: Botswana, Eswatini , Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
To contain the importation of more cases of this mutation, also present in Germany and which has already claimed at least one life, all travelers over six years of age who have been in one of the countries on this list in the last ten days They must present a negative test before starting their trip.
Only German citizens or residents of that country will be able to enter Germany who must keep, after entering German territory, a 14-day quarantine, also if they are vaccinated, and without the option to shorten the isolation by means of a negative test. People who only make a stopover in the country or must cross it to reach their final destination may
also enter.
