Germany is adding the United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, Switzerland
and Liechtenstein to its list of risk areas from midnight on 24 October,
meaning that travellers arriving from those countries will need to enter
quarantine. Many regions in Italy and Austria are also now considered as risk
areas by the German authorities.
People entering Germany who have been in a risk area at any time within the last 14 days prior to entry have to self-isolate at their destination until they can provide a negative test result. Tests are free for travellers from risk areas up to 72 hours after entry and can be conducted at airports.
The classification is based on a joint analysis
and decision by the Federal Ministry of Health, the Foreign Office and the
Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs. The
decision to include a country or region is based on a two-step assessment.
Initially, it is determined in which countries/regions there were more than 50
new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days. In a second
step, qualitative criteria are used to determine whether or not
countries/regions that might nominally fall below this threshold could
nonetheless still present an increased risk of infection.
Read the full
list of risk areas published by the Robert Koch Institute.
The German authorities said the Canary Islands in Spain and the Ida-Viru region in Estonia are no longer considered as risk areas.
The UK has also announced that the Canary Islands, Denmark, the Maldives and the Greek island
of Mykonos will be added to its safe
travel corridor list at 4am on 25 October while Liechtenstein will be
removed from the list at the same time.