As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, on Thursday, Germany included the counties of Istria and Bjelovar-Bilogora in the list of regions with a high risk of coronavirus infection, and things have only become worse as the German Government place Croatia as a country in that unfortunate category.
Due to the growing number of newly infected people, the Robert Koch State Epidemiological Institute has declared the last two Croatian counties that were not on the list as risk areas.
A negative coronavirus test and ten days of mandatory quarantine
The above decision to place Croatia on the high risk list takes effect on Saturday, April the 3rd, and means that all people coming to Germany from Croatia will have to present a negative test for coronavirus no older than 48 hours and be quarantined for ten days after returning regardless of the result.
Self-isolation can be terminated after five days with if another negative test result is obtained after the fifth day.
Along with the Balearic islands, Istria has so far been one of the rare tourist destinations for German citizens that was not on the list of high risk areas.
Numerous Germans travelled for the Easter holidays despite appeals from the authorities not to
Despite appeals from politicians, many Germans travelled abroad for the Easter holidays this week.
Due to the large number of tourists traveling to Mallorca, the German Government passed a decree on Tuesday requiring travellers returning from that Spanish island to show a negative coronavirus test, even though Mallorca isn’t currently on the list of risk regions. The interior ministry explained this by saying that those people could have easily had contact with tourists from other countries which are on the list.
The German Government also considered banning travel abroad entirely, as the United Kingdom has done unless that travel is for necessary purposes, but dropped it for both constitutional and legal reasons.
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