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Berlin wants to impose a quarantine on travelers upon arrival

2020-04-06T12:16:54.244Z



Berlin wants to impose a 14-day quarantine on all travelers returning to Germany after a stay abroad, an interior ministry spokesman announced on Monday. It is a recommendation made at the end of a council of ministers devoted to measures related to the pandemic linked to the new coronavirus and addressed to the 16 regional states which, federalism obliges, take the decision as a last resort.

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It is to enter into force on April 10, according to a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, and concern Germans and nationals of a European Union state while the EU has closed its external borders. Since March 16, Germany has already imposed drastic controls at its land borders with France, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Denmark in an attempt to limit the spread of Covid-19.

According to a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior, 70,000 people have been driven back to the borders since the implementation of this measure. In the past 20 days, it has also repatriated 220,000 Germans who were abroad when the pandemic, which killed more than 1,400 people in the country, swept across Europe.

However, the quarantine of travelers could cause dissatisfaction in certain border regions such as Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (east) where many Polish doctors work in hospitals in the region.

Source: lefigaro

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