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The German government announced that it intends to lift the travel ban to European Union countries in addition to Britain, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland as of June 15, "as long as there is no ban on entering these countries or general isolation measures imposed on them on a large scale."
Reuters quoted German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas as saying in an interview with reporters today after a cabinet meeting that "all the countries concerned have met these criteria except Norway, which imposes an entry ban, as well as Spain, where Parliament will decide whether to extend the entry ban."
He added that "the travel advice is not an invitation to travel and it is not encouraged at all to travel to Britain, for example, as long as it imposes a quarantine on all arrivals for a period of 14 days."
He continued: "We will make raising the travel warning constantly dependent on how the situation on the ground has evolved in relation to the spread of the Corona virus," pointing out that new warnings may be issued if a country records more than 50 new infections with each of 100,000 people within seven days.
The data of the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases in Germany today showed that the number of infections increased by 342 cases to 182370 and deaths to 8551 after 29 new cases were recorded.