The German government has declared all of Spain and the Netherlands to be a high-risk area due to the high number of corona infections in the pandemic. The Robert Koch Institute announced on Friday. This means that there is a ten-day quarantine obligation for those arriving or returning to travel who are not vaccinated or have recovered from Corona for up to six months. In high-risk areas, a submitted negative test can only release you from the quarantine obligation after five days.
Especially Spain and here the holiday island of Mallorca as the Germans’ favorite holiday island had already feared this step. “This decision will mainly be made by Mallorca and the rest of the islands (Balearic Islands),” wrote the newspaper “ltima Hora” on Friday. “That would be another blow to tourism”, the newspaper “Diario de Mallorca” fears before the announcement in Berlin.
Incidence in Mallorca was 365
The quarantine requirement particularly affects younger vacationers, many of whom have not yet been vaccinated. But even completely vaccinated parents could get into trouble if their children had to be in quarantine for at least five days after returning from their Mallorca vacation instead of being allowed to go to daycare or kindergarten.
Since the end of June, the corona numbers have skyrocketed practically everywhere in Spain. The country has one of the worst values in Europe. Around 475,000 new infections were counted within a month, the seven-day incidence rose from 42 in June to 333 now, well above the 200 mark above which Germany can declare a country to be a high-incidence area. In Mallorca, the value was recently even 365.
The Czech Republic classifies Spain as “dark red”
The Czech Republic also tightened its entry requirements on Friday and put the Netherlands and Spain on the list of “dark red” risk areas, as the Ministry of Health in Prague announced, according to the CTK. Travelers from these countries have to be in quarantine and can test themselves off after five days at the earliest. The same applies to the countries classified as “red” Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta and Portugal.
In the case of Spain and the Netherlands, Austria continues to be classified as countries with a low epidemiological risk for the time being. The same applies to Cyprus, which is also colored dark red again on the corona traffic light of the EU health agency ECDC.
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