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Pasewalk / Wolgast (dpa) - At traffic controls in the Corona risk district of Vorpommern-Greifswald, the police turned back more than a third of all vehicles on Sunday.

As a police spokesman in Neubrandenburg explained, checks were carried out on the access roads to the island of Usedom and in the Pasewalk region on federal highway 109.

The district prohibits day tourists from entering the country without a valid reason because the weekly incidence in the region has recently been 158 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants.

Above all, vehicles from neighboring Brandenburg, whose passengers probably wanted to go to the Baltic Sea in the sun, were turned away.

Especially in the south of the district, 238 vehicles from other federal states were checked, 140 of which had to turn back.

Of the 212 controlled vehicles from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, 32 cars had to turn around, especially in Wolgast and at the Zecheriner Bridge near Anklam.

On Saturday the police had checked 310 cars in the district and asked 53 of them to turn back, including from the Uckermark.

© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210221-99-535168 / 2

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