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Koblenz / Saarbrücken - With the classification of the French border region Moselle as a so-called virus variant area from this Tuesday, stricter rules apply when entering Germany.
In the future, people from the department will have to show a negative corona test that is no older than 48 hours when entering the neighboring Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.
A quick test is sufficient.
The federal police want to check the stricter test requirement on a random basis.
There will be control posts in the border area with the Moselle region in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.
Stationary border controls are not planned.
For the practice of the Federal Police this is no change from before: There has been an "intensified border veil search", it said.
The federal government decided on Sunday to classify the Moselle department, with its approximately one million inhabitants, as a virus variant area from Tuesday.
According to Prime Minister Jean Castex, the South African variant already accounts for 60 percent of positive corona cases there.
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