The whole of the Netherlands, including its constituent countries and the overseas territories of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is now deemed “at particularly high risk of infection due to a particularly high number of cases,” Germany’s public health body the Robert Koch Institute said. For commuters, a negative test is valid for 72 hours. Anyone entering Germany from the Netherlands will also need to register on this website before they arrive. The Netherlands is the fourth country to border Germany – after Czech Republic, Poland and France – that Germany has qualified as an area of particularly high risk. READ ALSO: UPDATE: Germany requires negative Covid test for travellers from FranceAccording to the RKI, a country is designated as particularly high risk when it has more than 200 new infections per 100,000 residents within the last seven-day period.

Source: The Local April 04, 2021 16:30 UTC