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Berlin (dpa) - Because of the particularly high number of corona infections in the Netherlands, the federal government classifies the neighboring country as a high incidence area after Easter.
Anyone entering Germany from there on Tuesday must be able to show a negative corona test upon entry, as the Robert Koch Institute announced on Sunday.
The ten-day quarantine with the option of freeing yourself with a second test after five days remains unchanged.
There are exemptions for commuters.
After the Czech Republic, Poland and France, the Netherlands, which borders North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, is the fourth neighboring country to be classified as a high-incidence area with more than 200 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days (incidence).
According to the RKI, the Netherlands was previously a risk area, and travelers only had to be able to present a corona test result after 48 hours.
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Of Germany's 26 EU partner countries, 13 including the Netherlands were classified as high-incidence areas and 13 as wholly or partially risk areas as of Tuesday.
The Netherlands with around 17 million inhabitants has been in a lockdown since mid-December, and an evening curfew has been in effect since the end of January.
Nevertheless, the number of infections continues to increase.
The government has already announced that it is unlikely that the measures will be eased quickly.
Most recently, 7,682 new infections were registered on Saturday, 413 more than the day before.
The seven-day incidence is around 300 infections per 100,000 population.
North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) and the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte had already warned against cross-border travel at Easter on Good Friday.
"Stay at home.
Refrain from vacation trips and excursions to the neighboring country », they appealed in a joint statement to the citizens.
This is an important contribution to ensure that border traffic is really necessary as smoothly as possible.
What is absolutely necessary can still be done in the neighboring country.
"Let us, with understanding and considerate behavior, make this year the beginning of the end of the pandemic," pleaded Laschet and Rutte.
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RKI on the corona risk areas