The German region of the Saar does not rule out the reestablishment of border controls with France and Luxembourg to control the spread of Covid-19 variants, its Minister-President said on Friday February 12.
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"
If there are glaring differences between the incidences, then we will have no choice,
" warned on German news channel NTV Tobias Hans, the conservative leader of this small region-state in the southwest of France. Germany.
However, he stressed that changes could concern frontier workers.
Controls had indeed been reinstated in spring 2020 in the Saarland, arousing the anger of those who cross this border daily.
The German Minister of Health, Jens Spahn, in the process confirmed that a reinstatement of controls could not be "
excluded
", however calling for "
caution
".
“
We know what this means for both sides
” of the border, he said at a press conference.
The day before, the French Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, had estimated that the viral situation in the department of Moselle, bordering the Saar, was “
worrying
” with in particular more than 300 identified cases of South African and Brazilian variants.
Germany announced Thursday the closure of the borders with the Czech Republic and the Austrian Tyrol which record high rates of infection with the highly contagious variants of the coronavirus.