After many countries and regions were removed from the list of risk areas at the beginning of summer, the federal government is now reversing some of these decisions.
Berlin - With Cyprus and the Spanish region of Catalonia, the federal government put two more holiday areas on the list of corona risk areas on Sunday.
In addition, three other regions in Spain and Norway are declared risk areas, as the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Friday. However, this has hardly any factual effects for holidaymakers, since air travelers have to be tested on arrival anyway and the quarantine obligation is no longer applicable. However, the classification as a risk area means that the Federal Foreign Office advises against traveling there.
Countries and regions in which the infections per 100,000 inhabitants are over 50 in seven days (7-day incidence) are classified as risk areas. It's the lowest risk level. No additional countries or regions are classified in the two higher categories of high incidence and virus variant areas on Sunday. In Europe, only one region in Croatia has been removed from the risk list, plus Qatar and the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Aruba. dpa