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After traveling just back with a test? Many are open to it - but the police see problems

2021-07-28T13:10:55.072Z


Do return travelers drive the infection rate in Germany? A corona test requirement for this group is currently being discussed. There is still little in concrete terms.


Do returnees drive the infection rate in Germany?

A corona test requirement for this group is currently being discussed.

There is still little in concrete terms.

Berlin - A certain uncertainty travels with you on these vacation days: Where is the corona virus lurking?

Do I have to be in quarantine when I return to Germany?

Do you need a negative test?

At least the last question threatens to have to be answered with “yes” soon - regardless of which country you come from.

Corona test compulsory for travelers returning to Germany?

Date and procedure still unclear

Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) strive for a negative test to be necessary in the future - regardless of where and with which means of transport travelers come. A start date and the final decisions have not yet been made. Söder spoke from August 1st, a government spokeswoman left a date open on Wednesday lunchtime for the planned general corona test obligation for vacationers when they return to Germany. Votes are in progress, said the deputy spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer.

A general test obligation upon entry already exists for all flight passengers.

Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CDU) said on Tuesday evening in the ARD that the federal government had promised that it would try everything by August 1 to introduce a uniform test requirement, “not only for air travel, but also, for example, for everything on normal car route or train route ".

In the past few days, Söder and Seehofer also said that the controls should be carried out on a random basis in individual traffic.

According to the Bavarian Prime Minister, nobody wants and does not do stationary border controls.

SPD for compulsory corona test: "want travel to be safer"

SPD party leader Saskia Esken spoke out in favor of the general compulsory test: “I am absolutely in favor of us taking a close look at travelers,” she said on RTL / ntv “early start”. “It can be seen very clearly that traveling abroad involves risks.” SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil said on Wednesday in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin”: “We as the SPD - including the Minister of Justice - want travel to be safer . And that means expanding the obligation to test. ”But that must be legally clean and proportionate. It is now up to the Minister of Health to create a legally secure basis. “And then we are also able to act and implement very quickly so that these extended tests for travelers returning will also come.” The first drafts were not correct. It now has to be reworked quickly.According to reports, Federal Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) expressed concerns about the current plans.

The Greens join the SPD position.

Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock described an immediate tightening of the travel rules as absolutely necessary.

You shouldn't repeat the mistakes of last summer by only thinking about better protection when the travelers have already returned, she said during an election campaign in the Swabian Alb-Danube district.

It is absolutely essential that those returning to travel who do not have a double vaccination are properly tested from now on.

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Will all return travelers have to submit a negative corona test soon?

© Sebastian Gollnow / dpa

Vaccinated and convalescents also affected?

In contrast to Söder, Seehofer is clear - the police are skeptical

Recently, Söder did not explicitly comment on how vaccinated and convalescent people will be treated in the future.

Seehofer had

told

the

Bild-Zeitung

: "Anyone who has been shown to have been vaccinated or recovered does not need a test, of course."

The chairman of the police union for the federal police, Andreas Roßkopf, is skeptical of the possible expansion of the obligation to test.

The background is, as is so often the case, the shortage of staff: "I see a possible expansion of the corona test obligation to all unvaccinated travelers returning critically," he told the

Rheinische Post

. “We as the federal police would be responsible for controls on trains and at stations. We already barely have enough staff to handle day-to-day business there. If such controls are added, we are missing around 2,500 federal police officers. ”And there is still car traffic at the state borders:“ The state police are responsible, but they are already receiving administrative assistance from us. If all car travelers are to be checked on a random basis, we will lack additional staff and mobile deployment containers in order to be able to provide our colleagues with the necessary technology, ”said Roßkopf.

In the eyes of AfD top candidate Alice Weidel, the obligation to test would be a "disproportionate burden on travelers, border authorities and the tourism industry".

She spoke of a feeling of uncertainty among vacationers, which must finally stop.

(cibo / dpa)

List of rubric lists: © Sebastian Gollnow / dpa

Source: merkur

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