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In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, those returning from German corona high-risk areas have to be in quarantine.
The only exceptions are people who have visited immediate family members in other federal states.
Anyone who has been to distant relatives or friends, however, has to be in isolation for ten days, which can only be shortened to five days with two negative tests.
The state government decided on Friday in a special Corona meeting.
This regulation, which is endorsed by Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD), is intended to prevent the coronavirus from being brought into the country.
According to the regulation, regions with more than 200 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days are considered high-risk areas.
The regulation, with which Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is again taking a separate path, had previously met with massive criticism.
The country's Ombudsman, Matthias Crone, classified such unequal treatment as legally questionable.
In addition, the freedom of movement will be restricted more than usual in Germany without the infection situation in the country being worse, said Crone.
Left criticizes new regulation
The left also criticized the new regulation.
It is incomprehensible that Schwesig still differentiates between high-risk areas in other federal states and their own state in their considerations, said the parliamentary group leader Simone Oldenburg.
»Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has long since lost the status of lower new infection rates.
That is why it cannot measure with double standards, ”says Oldenburg.
The state government had already issued strict travel and movement restrictions in the first wave of infections in the spring.
Even locals were banned from going to the beach and owners of holiday apartments were banned from using them.
Such measures caused considerable displeasure and the courts had also partially cashed them back.
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