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After more than a year, the federal government is adjusting the threshold for warnings for tourist trips to corona risk areas.
As Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) announced, the warning should generally be lifted for regions with a seven-day incidence below 200.
"After long months of lockdown, we can look forward to more normalcy, and that also applies to travel," said Maas. "With all justified confidence, the absence of a travel warning is not one thing: an invitation to be carefree," said the minister. »Travel with reason and a sense of proportion, that is the motto of this summer. The danger posed by the virus and its mutants is far from over. «The government will continue to warn against travel to areas with high incidence and virus variants, for example.
The Corona travel warning currently applies to all regions of the world in which the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants exceeds 50 within seven days.
On July 1st, it will only apply from an incidence of 200 and up to areas where dangerous virus variants have spread widely.
But that is only around 40 of the around 200 countries worldwide.
Entry restrictions for numerous countries are no longer applicable
The Robert Koch Institute had previously announced that it would remove all of Austria and parts of Greece, Croatia and Switzerland from the list of risk areas from Sunday.
Anyone coming to Germany from these areas by land will no longer have to observe any entry restrictions due to Corona in the future.
The holiday islands of Madeira in Portugal and Cyprus as well as twelve other countries in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Asia and North America are also removed from the risk list, including the USA and Canada.
In these two countries, however, there is still an entry ban for Germans who do not live there.
At the same time, countries were also upgraded: Malaysia, Mongolia, Namibia and Sri Lanka will be high incidence areas from Sunday.
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