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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - All travelers returning from risk areas abroad are subject to a corona test obligation in North Rhine-Westphalia from Monday.
Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) pointed this out again on Sunday.
"Since in North Rhine-Westphalia, according to the case law of the Münster Higher Administrative Court, no entry quarantine may be ordered for returnees from all risk areas, we have now decided on the much milder means, namely to require at least a binding corona rapid test," he explained in one Message.
According to the entry ordinance, travelers returning from risk areas abroad are obliged to be tested no more than 24 hours before entry or immediately after arrival from Monday.
The test costs would have to be borne by yourself.
Test offers should be available at the airports by January 1st at the latest.
If a test option is not available immediately at the point of entry, the test should be carried out within 24 hours.
According to the country's separate quarantine ordinance, anyone who does not want to meet the test obligation with a rapid test but with a PCR test has to go into quarantine until the result is received.
Exempt from the test obligation are, among other things, travelers passing through, inland waterway skippers, people in small border traffic who stay for less than 24 hours, cross-border commuters.
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Entrants from the United Kingdom and South Africa would generally have to go into quarantine for ten days after arriving in NRW.
In addition, the persons concerned must be tested for the coronavirus immediately before or on arrival and then again after five days.
If the test fails after five days, the quarantine can be ended prematurely.
The classification as a risk area is carried out by the Robert Koch Institute (https://www.rki.de/covid-19-risikogebiete) if a country or region exceeds the limit of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the past seven days .
The new mandatory test does not apply to regions within Germany.