Before Christmas vacation: Popular vacation island of Germans strongly tightened corona rules - entry hardly possible

Mallorca is suddenly the Covid 19 hotspot of Spain: The government of the Balearic Islands is reacting drastically to contain the corona virus.

Tourists from Germany are badly affected.

• Coronavirus pandemic

  : Some citizens want to

  escape

  the

  corona lockdown rules in Germany

  on

  vacation

  in the sun.

• Mallorca

  is the new

  Covid-19 hotspot in Spain

  .

  The government of the

  Balearic island is

  therefore imposing new, tightened

  corona rules

  .

• Shortly before

  Christmas

  and

  New Year's Eve

  , such entry is only possible for foreigners under difficult conditions.

Munich / Palma de Mallorca - Omnipresent

Corona crisis

.

And now that too: Probably the most popular holiday island for Germans, its

corona restrictions are

massively

tightened

from Tuesday (December 15).

We are of course talking about

Mallorca

, the holiday destination of many tourists in the

Mediterranean

.

Coronavirus pandemic: Mallorca is Spain's new Covid-19 hotspot

The background:

Mallorca

is now the absolute

Covid-19

hotspot in Spain

in the

coronavirus pandemic

.

The number of

new corona infections

had risen to 336 within 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants.

For comparison: According to the Spanish Ministry of Health, this value was last at 190 on the mainland. In

Germany

, the

7-day incidence

- as of December 14 - is 176.

The regional government of the

Balearic Islands

reacted now - and shortly before the

Christmas

vacation of many Germans.

Specifically: From Tuesday, December 15,

the highest level of the five-stage (0 to 4)

Corona

protocol will

apply

again

to

Mallorca

, as the head of government of the Balearic Islands, Francina Armengol, announced this Monday (December 14).

Christmas vacation in the corona crisis: difficult entry for German tourists to Mallorca

The contact restrictions and requirements should initially apply until December 28th.

One consequence:

anyone

traveling

to the

Balearic Islands

from abroad and the rest of

Spain

must present a negative

PCR test

, which must not be older than 72 hours.

Children under six are excluded;

the test result can also be written in German.

This makes it extremely difficult for tourists to enter the island, on whom the island is economically dependent.

In

Mallorca

, only a maximum of six people are allowed to meet.

Furthermore, the

night curfew

, which applies between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., and which should actually be

relaxed

for the holidays at

Christmas

, is being extended.

As the German-language

Mallorca newspaper

reports, pubs and restaurants are no longer allowed to serve their guests indoors.

Coronavirus pandemic: Stricter corona rules on Mallorca than on Ibiza and Menorca

On the neighboring islands of

Menorca

and

Ibiza

, the

corona measures are

much milder because the infection rate is significantly lower.

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