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Berlin (dpa) - The test obligation decided by the federal and state governments when entering Germany from a foreign risk area should have been introduced nationwide earlier from the point of view of Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder.
Bavaria and other border countries have been pointing out the problem for a long time, the CSU boss emphasized on Tuesday evening after consultations by the federal government and the states in Berlin.
Entry from foreign risk areas posed a great risk, also because the corona rules often do not apply there.
Anyone entering from a foreign risk area must in future be tested on arrival or in the 48 hours before.
The obligation to a ten-day quarantine, which can be ended from the fifth day by a negative test, remains.
In Bavaria this regulation has been in place for some time.
On Tuesday it became known that the Bavarian border police had reported 1,300 travelers from risk areas to health authorities because they could not present a negative corona test or an entry registration.
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From December 29th to January 3rd inclusive, around 10,000 travelers were checked at the borders of the Free State and at Nuremberg and Memmingen airports.
For around 4,000 of them a test was compulsory, but only around 1,400 were able to present a negative result on entry.
According to the information, around 1,300 people were able to submit an entry registration.
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