German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas plans to adapt the travel warning, which was extended yesterday, for countries outside the European Union to the rapidly changing conditions of the Corona pandemic.
Mas said yesterday: “Therefore, we will review again the travel warning before next September, with the safety of travelers setting a major criterion there, and only where the comprehensive package consisting of a positive development of the pandemic, a stable health system, and coherent safety measures in relation to tourism, and the potential for reliable return and return, may be possible. Refer to the travel warning for travel advice ».
Yesterday, the German Cabinet approved the extension of the travel warning to more than 160 countries outside the European Union until the end of next August, with the possibility of applying exceptions to some countries where the spread of the emerging Corona virus has decreased adequately.
And unlike neighboring European countries, Mas said that for the rest of the world there are no reliable common databases, standards or coordination processes, that make the return of travel without possible restrictions without imperceptible risks. This summer, or the returning vacationers carry the virus to Germany without being detected. ”
Mas stated that the German government understands that many citizens want to travel outside Europe again as soon as possible, referring to tourist destinations in Turkey, North Africa, Southeast Asia and America, adding, in return, that canceling the travel warning should be appropriate to the general situation And, he said: «As long as there is a travel ban linked to the pandemic to the European Union from countries outside the Union, it will not be possible for thousands of European tourists to travel there again.
And on the seventeenth of last March, following the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, MAS announced his citizens ’warning against traveling to all of the world’s 200 countries, in a unique step, as the travel warning was only limited to the danger of The lives of the Germans if they traveled to war zones, for example, and the decision made it possible to cancel the trips at no cost to the clients of the travel companies.