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By car, train and plane: compulsory testing for travelers from August 1st

2021-07-28T09:38:09.637Z


The obligation to test in the wake of the increasing corona incidence will probably come earlier than expected for all travelers. The quarantine rules will also be adjusted from Wednesday.


The obligation to test in the wake of the increasing corona incidence will probably come earlier than expected for all travelers.

The quarantine rules will also be adjusted from Wednesday.

Berlin - The test obligation for vacationers will probably come earlier than originally assumed.

The federal government wants to try everything by August 1st in order to introduce a uniform test requirement "not only for air travel, but also, for example, for everything that comes on a normal car route or train route," said Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) on Tuesday evening on ARD - Daily Topics.

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According to his information, Söder was informed that the necessary legal basis would be created so that the regulation could be implemented by August 1st.

"The rule is relatively simple, everyone needs a test that arrives again, so to speak, whether he comes by car, train or plane."

A test obligation has so far only applied to travelers arriving by plane.

Söder thinks the planned change is more understandable, clearer and safer.

Söder had left open how the regulation affects those who have recovered and who have been vaccinated.

His party colleague and Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer explained: "Anyone who has been shown to have been vaccinated or recovered, of course, does not need a test," he told "Bild".

Obligation to test for those returning to travel: Federal states are putting pressure on uniform regulations

The originally planned date for compulsory testing - September 11th - was “a joke in Söder's view, because the vacation and thus perhaps the most important time for compulsory testing in most federal states would be over.

The countries have put pressure on because they need a reliable basis for entry.

No one wants stationary border controls and no one does, ”said Söder in the.

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The obligation to test for travelers returning will be expanded.

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The Green health politician Janosch Dahmen said to the "Rheinische Post" on Wednesday: "Travel mobility remains an essential factor in the recent increase in new infections in Germany and Europe." That is why it is right to extend the obligation to test to all travelers.

Health Minister Jens Spahn recently called for stricter rules for those returning to travel.

Quarantine rules adapted from Wednesday

In the corona rules for entry into Germany, a change to the quarantine requirements will apply from Wednesday.

Anyone who comes from an area with new, highly contagious virus variants can only end the mandatory 14-day quarantine prematurely with a negative test if the region is downgraded during the quarantine period - to a risk area or high incidence area with high numbers of infections.

In principle, premature “free testing” is otherwise not possible for those arriving from virus variant areas.

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The mandatory test for travelers should apply from August.

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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) publishes on the Internet which regions the federal government declares as high-risk, high-incidence or virus variant areas with requirements for tests and quarantine.

South Africa and Brazil are currently virus variant areas, and another corona variant has now been discovered in Great Britain.

Spain and the Netherlands are currently among the high incidence areas.

In Italy, too, the incidence is currently rising steadily.

SPD supports compulsory testing for returning vacationers

The SPD advocates a general obligation to test for those returning to travel.

“I am absolutely in favor of us taking a close look at travelers,” said party leader Saskia Esken on Wednesday morning on RTL / ntv “early start”.

“It can be seen very clearly that traveling abroad involves risks.” Returnees would possibly bring the Delta or other variants with them.

"That's why we have to look very carefully to protect ourselves from the big wave sloshing in over Germany again."

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A test obligation also applies from August after traveling by train.

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SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil said on Wednesday in the ZDF morning magazine: “We as the SPD - including the Justice Minister - 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 Federal 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 must now be reworked quickly.

AfD speaks out against compulsory testing for return travelers

The AfD top candidate Alice Weidel has spoken out against the planned corona test obligation for travelers returning.

This would be a "disproportionate burden on travelers, the border authorities and the tourism industry," said Weidel on Wednesday.

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

The chairman of the AfD parliamentary group also criticized the fact that the same quarantine rules currently do not apply to those who have been vaccinated and recovered after a stay in a foreign area with high numbers of infections as to all other immigrants.

"The quarantine exemption of vaccinated and convalescents disadvantages healthy people and exposes them to further vaccination pressure," said Weidel.

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(with material from the dpa)

List of rubric lists: © dpa / Jens Kalaene

Source: merkur

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