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Koblenz / Saarbrücken (dpa / lrs) - With the classification of the French border region Moselle as a so-called virus variant area since Tuesday, stricter rules apply when entering Germany.
In 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.
This also applies to commuters.
The federal police inspect the stricter test obligation on a random basis in the border area to the Moselle region in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.
There will be no border controls on the border line.
"We remain in this intensified search and surveillance, so speak in the veil search as usual," said a spokesman for the Federal Police Inspectorate in Trier.
This veil manhunt takes place every day.
The government spokesman in Saarland, Alexander Zeyer, said of the announced checks by the federal police in the vicinity of the border: "As the state government, we are relying on our federal police in Saarbrücken to act with the sensitivity that is used in non-Corona times."
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An "intensified border veil search" is also in the border area with Luxembourg and Belgium, said the spokesman for the federal police.
Luxembourg and Belgium are classified as risk areas by the Robert Koch Institute.
A Franco-German test center should go into operation on Tuesday at the Goldene Bremm border crossing near Saarbrücken.
The operators are local German and French municipalities and the Saarland.
If you want to be examined in the test center, you should make an appointment online beforehand, according to the European Ministry in Saarbrücken.
Around 16,000 commuters commute from Moselle to Saarland every day.
In view of the tightened entry rules from Moselle, cross-border public transport to Saarland is suspended on Tuesday.
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