Tougher testing rulesIn the draft, the Health Ministry sets out its plans for comprehensive Covid testing for non-vaccinated travellers, regardless of whether they travel by air, road or rail. For this set of people, compulsory tests would only be required if they enter from areas with particularly high infections. No more ‘basic risk areas’The ministry is also proposing a shake-up of the existing risk categories for foreign countries. High infections ‘should be delayed as long as possible’According to DPA, the Health Ministry want to rush through the plans in order to hold back the tide of new Covid infections largely fuelled by the more transmissible Delta variant for as long as possible. On Wednesday, a private memo from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) allegedly warned political decision-makers that Germany was seeing the start of a fourth wave.

Source: The Local July 29, 2021 11:37 UTC