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Saarbrücken (dpa / lrs) - In the small border traffic between the French area of Moselle and the Saarland, there will be relief from May 13th: The special test obligation for cross-border commuters on the way to work, school or university will then no longer apply, said the representative for European affairs of the Saarland, Roland Theis (CDU), in Saarbrücken on Wednesday.
In addition, the 24-hour rule comes into force again, which exempts people from the test requirement for stays of less than 24 hours.
The reason for the new regulation is that the Moselle department has ceased to be a virus variant area since May 2nd.
Like all of France, Moselle is now a high incidence area.
Moselle was classified as a virus variant area on March 2, because the South African variant had spread massively.
This was accompanied by stricter entry rules: people from Moselle had to present a negative test that was not allowed to be older than 48 hours.
That will soon be over: With the regulations passed by the state government, “the same rules will soon apply to commuters from the Moselle as to people who have a place of residence in Saarland,” said Theis.
France also exempts commuters and stays of less than 24 hours within a radius of 30 kilometers from the test.
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Local public transport, which had been suspended for around two months, resumed on May 3rd.
The fact that the exemptions from compulsory tests in border traffic will not come into force until May 13th is due to the fact that there is a transitional period of ten days after the decision to reclassify Moselle.
And this expires on May 12th.
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