Comment on the corona test obligation in Bavaria: The virus on the move

Compulsory corona test for travelers returning: Actually, it would have been up to the Minister of Health to point out the dangers of returnees more urgently, commented Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis.

• In the future, vacationers and family visitors will have to do a

  corona

  test when they return to Bavaria from abroad.

• It would actually have been up to the Federal Minister of Health to point out the dangers of returnees more urgently, comments Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis.

• Here we offer you the current

  case numbers in the Free State

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Germany's seven-day incidence

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In the Balkans in particular, the virus is raging even worse than it is here.

There are sometimes five times more people infected.

It is therefore right that Bavaria introduces an additional test requirement for holidaymakers and family returnees.

So that it doesn't mean afterwards that the politicians slept through the vacation time.

Even after the wave of return trips in September, the infection rate in Bavaria had accelerated significantly.

Europe, with its open borders and the

, is faced with problems that, for example, China with its strict border regime does not know.

In Europe, many countries are more or less successful in fighting the virus.

And the temporary improvement in the situation, which individual countries have achieved through tough lockdown measures, threatens to be destroyed by travelers from risk areas.

That is why it would be important to better coordinate the measures across borders, as scientists have just called for.

In countries with a high proportion of migrants, there is also the fact that certain population groups do not take part in social debates because of the language barriers, i.e. they are less easy to reach through appeals from politics.

Here employers have an obligation.

Otherwise, the

because the hardworking

nurse, the kindergarten teacher or the courier driver who has

returned from Serbia or Croatia

brings the virus with them.