Corona protective measures: Federal police tighten border controls

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In order to prevent people infected with Corona from entering Germany, the federal government significantly increased the number of countries classified as risk areas to 27 on Friday.

Countries where the seven-day incidence (number of new infections per 100,000 population) is above 200 are now included.

If you want to come to the Federal Republic of Germany from these countries, you have to be tested for Corona before departure and are only allowed to enter with a negative test result.

In order to prevent the entry of passengers infected with the coronavirus, the Federal Police are planning to tighten border controls significantly, according to information from "Spiegel".

Accordingly, there is an internal instruction from the Federal Ministry of the Interior that all those entering from the newly defined high-incidence areas should be "strictly controlled".

In order to achieve this, the federal police are mobilizing more staff, especially at Frankfurt and Munich airports.

Germany now distinguishes between three different categories of corona risk areas:

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“Normal” risk areas

are countries or regions with an incidence of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the past seven days.

This currently applies to almost all of Europe with the exception of individual areas in Greece, Finland, Norway, Austria and Denmark.

Well over 100 countries worldwide are risk areas.

"High incidence areas"

are countries with significantly higher

infections than in Germany.

The limit value is an incidence of 200 (Germany currently: 115).

However, under certain conditions, countries can also be declared “high incidence areas” under this brand.

As of Sunday, the following countries will fall into this category in addition to the countries already mentioned: Albania, Andorra, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Iran, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Colombia, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mexico, Montenegro, North Macedonia , Panama, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia and the United Arab Emirates.

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So far the UK, Ireland, South Africa and Brazil fall into this category.