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The Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) does not rule out renewed border controls with France or Luxembourg.
With a view to spreading virus mutations in Europe, Hans said on RTL / ntv's show “Frühstart”: “If there are blatant differences between the incidences, then we will have no choice.” But he emphasized that it was in Saarland there are no more "barriers with barriers".
Rather, they live together in this border area and cannot simply exclude commuters.
Hundreds of suspected infections with more contagious variants of the corona virus had previously occurred in the French border region with Germany.
Minister of Health Oliviér Véran spoke on Thursday evening of a "worrying situation" in the Moselle department, which borders the Saarland.
In the past four days, more than 300 suspected infections with the South African and Brazilian variants of the corona virus have been detected there.
In the first wave of the corona pandemic, Germany introduced border controls at the borders with France and Luxembourg from mid-March 2020.
People were not allowed to enter the country for weeks “without good reason”.
This step had caused upset in the international greater region.
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