Corona risk even during the holiday season: Mandatory tests are carried out at airports. Yet returnees infected over a dozen people at a party.
- Greece reports new corona * record numbers in the pandemic and tightened the measures in holiday resorts (August 11, 10:10 a.m.).
- The Federal Foreign Office has extended its travel warning for Spain. Mallorca is also increasingly becoming the focus of attention (see update from August 11, 9:17 p.m.) .
- Now the Netherlands is reacting to the increasing number of infections and tightening travel warnings for several areas (siege update from August 16, 11:19 a.m.).
- Here you will find the Corona news from Germany as well as the current case numbers as a card.
Update from August 17, 7:12 p.m.: The island state of Malta , which is popular with many as a holiday destination , has ordered the closure of bars and nightclubs due to rising corona numbers . The government of Malta is planning the regulation from Wednesday (August 19th). The only exceptions to this restriction are establishments that also have a restaurant. The Times of Malta reported on Monday. Health Minister Chris Fearne also ordered that boat parties be banned in the Mediterranean state. Overall, there should be no more gatherings of groups that include more than 15 people.
New measures to fight COVID-19:
* Bars and nightclubs to shut
* Boat parties stopped
* Maximum of 15 people to gather
* Masks in all closed public spaces
* Red, amber and green list for travel introduced
* Tests for countries on amber listhttps: //t.co/12732LZm05
In addition, a mask requirement applies in Malta in all rooms of public places - with the exception of restaurants, for which there are special rules. In the small island state, the authorities had recently registered around 70 new infections every day - and thus maximum values, as the newspaper reported. The day before, Italy had closed all discos in the country to protect against corona. Unlike some other countries, Malta is not one of the risk areas defined by the Robert Koch Institute.
After many holidaymakers from Austria had already returned from Croatia, Austria is now apparently planning to issue another travel warning.
Update from August 16, 4:55 p.m.: Israel has relaxed its Corona travel restrictions . The Ministry of Health said that returnees from 20 countries with low numbers of corona infections no longer have to adhere to a two-week quarantine in Israel . The countries also include Germany and Austria . The instruction also applies retrospectively to travelers who have entered the so-called "green countries" in the last 14 days.
Update from August 16, 11:19 a.m.: Due to the increasing number of infections, the Netherlands have now tightened their travel warnings for Spain, France and Belgium . Travel to Paris, the region around Marseille , Brussels, Ibiza and Mallorca is not recommended, reported the ANP news agency on Saturday (August 15). The warning applies from midnight. Anyone entering the Netherlands from these countries should be in home quarantine for 14 days .
Summer vacation despite Corona: infections at beach parties - Croatia reports high number of new infections
Update from August 13, 5.45 p.m .: With 180 new infections within 24 hours, Croatia reports the highest daily value of new infections since the beginning of the pandemic in February. And there are many holiday guests in the country: instead of the expected drop in bookings of up to 80 percent, according to the Croatian Tourist Office there were only 50 to 55 percent fewer bookings than in previous years. Those returning from traveling in neighboring Slovenia and in Germany who tested positive stated that they had participated in beach parties .
Update from August 13, 1:45 p.m.: The corona fears are becoming real: Spain is groaning under the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic . Tent clinics are already being set up in one city.
The corona numbers in Italy have also risen. The country immediately took drastic measures.
Summer vacation despite Corona: party vacationers bring Covid-19 with them from Croatia
Update from August 13, 12.35 p.m .: The Stuttgart club scene has to adjust to stricter controls. Trigger: In a club in Stuttgart , travelers returning from Croatia celebrated their birthday (see update from August 12, 3:18 p.m.) .
24 party guests and one contact person have so far tested positive for Covid-19, the city said. "In the health department you feel reminded of Ischgl," said a city spokesman, as reported by the dpa news agency . The Austrian region, like Croatia, was not initially classified as a risk area and many traveled there in spring and became infected. “Now we have a déjà vu. Croatia is clearly becoming a hotspot, ”said the spokesman.
Update from August 13, 11:39 a.m .: Bavaria has travelers returning to test for Corona on a large scale. Corona test stations have been set up at airports, border crossings on the motorway and at train stations. Now there has been a glaring Corona test breakdown, reports Merkur.de *.
Update from August 12th, 10 p.m.: Does Germany measure in the summer vacation season with the assessment of Corona risk areas with double standards? The number of new Covid-19 infections in the Balearic Islands and thus on Mallorca and Ibiza * has at least long exceeded the critical value - and still nothing happens.
Summer vacation despite the corona pandemic: party vacationers come back from Croatia with Covid-19
Update from August 12, 3:18 p.m.: After returning from a party holiday in Novalja , Croatia , eight young people infected at least 14 acquaintances at a birthday party in Stuttgart .
In July, the group traveled to Croatia and then tested positive for the corona virus , explains a city spokesman for the German press agency . The authorities assume that the holiday returnees did not know about their infection when they attended the celebration in Germany.
40 people were present at the birthday party in Stuttgart . It is not clear at the moment whether more would have been infected, the authorities are currently trying to find out.
Summer vacation despite Corona: Foreign Office extends travel warning - more and more Germans are infected abroad
Update from August 12, 2:39 p.m .: The summer holidays are over in some federal states. This is also noticeable in the corona cases. About every fourth new corona infection in North Rhine-Westphalia is currently due to people returning from home and abroad, the NRW Ministry of Health announced on Monday at the request of the dpa news agency . According to the North Rhine Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, 71 out of a good 1850 smears in the test center were positive at the largest NRW Airport in Düsseldorf alone.
Corona vacation: travel warning for Madrid and Basque Country
Update from August 11, 9:17 p.m.: A bang from the Federal Foreign Office : The federal authority has extended its travel warning for Spain. There is now also a warning against “unnecessary, tourist trips” to Madrid and the Basque Country . So far, the warning has only applied to the regions of Aragon, Catalonia and Navarra.
Corona vacation: More and more Germans are infected abroad
Update from August 11, 8:35 p.m .: It's vacation time - and that now has a direct impact on the Corona numbers at home. Because more and more Germans are practically dragging the virus into the Federal Republic. The number of Covid 19 cases that originate outside of Germany has recently risen sharply. This emerges from the current management report of the Robert Koch Institute .
The RKI writes: “In the course of the travel restrictions, the proportion where a country other than Germany is specified as the origin has steadily fallen to 0.4 percent in reporting week 20 (19 cases). An increase has been recorded since reporting week 21, which in reporting week 32 is 31% (1,777 cases). "
The current developments could even ensure that the high of 42 percent will soon be reached in reporting week 11 at the beginning of the pandemic . The situation is becoming more and more precarious in many holiday countries - including Spain and especially Mallorca .
Corona vacation: Alarming numbers from the Balearic Islands - travel warning should come
On August 11, 1,016 people in the Balearic Islands are considered infected, 170 more than the previous day and further evidence of the increasing number of new infections. (Source: covid19.ib.maps). According to the Spanish media, the actual numbers are even slightly higher. Does this mean a travel warning?
The travel warnings issued by the Foreign Office currently do not apply to countries within the European Union, among other things. As an EU country , Spain has nothing to fear. Actually. Because the Federal Office writes on its website: "If a country exceeds the number of newly infected people in relation to the population of 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants cumulatively in the last seven days, travel warnings can be issued again." This currently applies to Luxembourg - and could soon also be issued the Balearic Islands are transferred.
The daily newspaper "Diario de Mallorca" ran the headline on Tuesday: " The Balearic Islands are already exceeding the contagion threshold permitted by Germany " - specifically, the paper speaks of 55 infections per 100,000 inhabitants. In theory, this number is above the critical value of the Foreign Office. The federal authority must therefore take a closer look at the development in the Balearic Islands in the near future.
Update from August 11, 2:20 p.m.: Mallorca : The beer king on Ballermann opens its gates again after the corona- related closure. Immediately there is a large police operation because of Covid-19 violations . And not only that.
The Corona infections in Croatia rise. Neighbor Slovenia reacts to the Covid 19 pandemic , there are consequences for German vacationers. While the coronavirus is spreading in the world and some countries have already been declared risk areas, a party image that has now appeared causes horror.
Summer vacation despite Corona: bars and discos in Greece have to close earlier
Update from August 11, 2020, 10:10 a.m .: After the increased number of corona infections, the Greek government has ordered extensive restrictions for numerous holiday regions and cities.
In Greece , 203 new coronavirus infections were recorded in one day on Sunday , the highest number since the pandemic began . Now all taverns, bars and discos in numerous regions of the country, including Crete , Santorini , Mykonos and other well-known holiday regions, have to close at the latest by midnight every day . This measure will initially apply until August 23 , said government spokeswoman Aristotelia Peloni on TV on Monday.
In addition, all people arriving by land must submit a negative corona test from August 17th , regardless of which country they come from. The test must not be older than 72 hours. The Foreign Office in Berlin updated its travel advice for Greece accordingly on Monday.
Vacation despite Corona: fight on the North Sea beach in Belgium
In the Belgian town of Blankenberge there was a mass brawl among the bathers last Saturday . Some of the holidaymakers walked towards each other with umbrellas and attacked the arriving police officers . The background to the incident has not been clarified. According to "Euronews" loud music should have led to a dispute among the bathers . When the security forces asked the group to leave the North Sea beach , the situation escalated.
Riots and chaos in the Belgian City #Blankenberge earlier today ... pic.twitter.com/8Cmrf8Kkcp
- BasedPoland (@BasedPoland) August 8, 2020The minimum clearances should not have been observed. According to "HLN Nieuws' the group have a dismissal refused and the police attacked. These sat then a pepper spray and batons. According to the Belgian daily newspaper, a large contingent was requested by 120 policemen. There were several arrests .
The resort on the North Sea reacted to the incidents with a ban on day tourists . “Our city needs a break,” said Blankenberg's mayor Daphné Dumery after a crisis meeting on Sunday. Due to the current weather conditions, the rush in the Belgian coastal towns is very high and there are more police operations. Other Belgian vacation spots also want to restrict day tourism .
Meanwhile, eight German tourists are stuck in a small hut after positive corona tests
Vacation despite Corona: Numbers in the Balearic Islands cause concern
Update from August 10, 2020: 5:24 p.m.: The Federal Foreign Office has not yet declared all of Spain a risk area. Because of the increased corona infections , it only advises against tourist trips to the particularly affected regions of Catalonia, Navarra and Aragon . Islands such as the Canary Islands or the Balearic Islands are not classified as risk areas either, although tourists at Ballermann were too colorful and the party mile was closed.
But that could change soon. Especially in the Balearic Islands , the number of new infections is worrying. Because according to the Spanish Ministry of Health, the numbers are increasing there more than anywhere else in Spain. The R-value * is 1.26 on the islands and 1.12 on the mainland. In the past two weeks, the infection rate also rose from 34.36 to 52.1 infections per 100,000 inhabitants. The trend does not lie, but the regional government asserts that the high numbers of new infections are the result of increased tests.
Austria was already ruling. A travel warning for mainland Spain has been in effect since August 10th. The Balearic Islands are excluded - for now.
Vacation despite Corona: Söder promises 100 more test centers
Update from August 10, 2020, 12:42 p.m.: Markus Söder spoke about the corona situation in Bavaria this Monday and also drew attention to the newly set up test stations. “To date, around 60,000 tests have been carried out at the test stations , both at the airport, highways and main train stations. The positive rate was higher at the main train stations and highways than at the airports, ”said the Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU chief. The tests will continue. The test at the airport and the main train station is one thing, but at best you should test again at home five to six days later. "A test alone will not provide sufficient security," continued Bavaria's Prime Minister.
Around 100 more test centers are to be set up and the test capacities are being expanded. At the end of May the capacity was 22,000 tests per day. Currently there are 55,000 per day, more than many countries in the world nationally. The number is to be increased to over 200,000 in the near future.
First report from August 10, 2020: Munich - Greece first attracted the displeasure of many tourists due to stricter entry regulations, now the popular holiday country has announced new record numbers for those newly infected with the corona virus *. The government in Athens reported 203 new confirmed cases . Quite a small number, one might think. But that means the highest increase in a day since February. We have in Greece so that 5,623 people at Covid-19 ill.
Vacation in corona risk areas: CDU politicians call for mandatory registration before departure
Since Saturday, August 8th, holidaymakers returning from risky areas are required to have a corona test . But for some politicians, this regulation does not seem to go far enough. Günter Krings, for example, called for an obligation to register before leaving for a risk area . "If you want to travel to a risk area, you should report this to the health department beforehand so that it can be more easily checked afterwards whether the mandatory corona test was carried out on entry and whether the quarantine was complied with," said the CDU interior secretary of the Rheinische Post The head of the CDU economic council would like to ban travel to risk areas completely .
Are you going away this summer? When returning, note a possible obligation to #quarantine! What exactly applies can be found here: https://t.co/pi24bjCKkK pic.twitter.com/59QuRUrWLC
- Federal Foreign Office (@AuswaertigesAmt) July 30, 2020Travel to corona risk areas: SPD wants to ask returnees to pay
In parts of the SPD, too, there are reservations about the currently applicable regulation. For example, Secretary General Lars Klingbeil saw in the political talk "The Right Questions" on the live picture a "justice problem" in "that you drive to risk areas and then get paid for the test * by the state." Hamburg's First Mayor Peter expressed a similar opinion Tschentscher: "I think it is very justifiable if those who consciously make these trips to risk areas pay for it. You can also go on vacation elsewhere."
Coronavirus in France: mask requirement in heavily frequented places in Paris also applies outdoors
In France , since August 10, it has been mandatory to wear a mask outside in particularly busy places in the capital Paris . According to the city administration, sights, shopping streets, markets and above all the banks of the Seine are affected . Those who resist this face a fine of up to 135 euros. This means that Paris follows other cities in France such as Nice or Marseille. There, too, it is mandatory to wear a mask * in heavily frequented places.
Baltic Sea: Popular beaches like Timmendorfer Strand sealed off
The weather forecast for the weekend already gave an idea. With high summer temperatures, the beach resorts on the Baltic Sea, which are also popular with day tourists, feared a crowd last weekend. On Saturday, the so-called beach traffic lights were also red in many places. That means nothing works anymore. Niendorf, Timmendorfer Strand, Scharbeutz, Haffkrug, Sierksdorf, Neustadt, Rettin and Pelzerhaken were affected.
The beaches are full, the traffic light is red.
© Screenshot / strandampel.de, Bernd Wüstneck / dpa / picture alliance
In addition to appeals not to go to the lido, the community of Timmendorfer Strand was forced to take further Corona * measures. According to tourism director Joachim Nitz, the community wanted to set up construction fences with banners on access roads to warn day visitors before they approach the beach. (mt) * merkur.de and tz.de are part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network.
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