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Munich (dpa / lby) - Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) did not move away from the corona test obligation for travelers in a phone call with the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Monday.

It was a constructive exchange, said a Bavarian government spokesman afterwards.

But Söder had expressed that the Free State insisted on compulsory testing when entering Bavaria.

Nevertheless, one is confident that the situation at the border, where there were long traffic jams at the start of mandatory testing, will normalize.

Because the Czech Republic is a high-risk area, cross-border commuters are now only allowed to enter with a maximum 48-hour-old negative corona test.

At the beginning of the new regulation, this led to long traffic jams in front of the test stations - and to great annoyance among commuters from the Czech Republic.

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