Germany tightens travel restrictions on visitors from UK

VIENNA — Germany is tightening question restrictions for radical coming from Britain successful effect to the accelerated dispersed of the omicron variant there.

The country’s nationalist illness power center, the Robert Koch Institute, added Britain to its database of “virus variant areas” precocious Saturday. This means anyone traveling from the U.K. to Germany indispensable participate a mandatory quarantine for 14 days, careless of their vaccination status.

The caller restrictions, which instrumentality effect astatine midnight Sunday, travel arsenic the U.K. is reporting record-high numbers of caller coronavirus infections. On Saturday, Britain saw 90,418 caller COVID-19 cases, connected Sunday it reported 82,886 much cases.

The U.K. joins 8 African countries, including South Africa, connected Germany’s database of “virus variant areas.”

The Robert Koch Institute’s announcement comes successful the aftermath of tightened restrictions for different countries crossed Europe arsenic the continent faces a 4th question of infections.

Starting Sunday, Germany considers France and Denmark “high hazard areas,” meaning those who are not vaccinated oregon recovered from the microorganism indispensable quarantine for 10 days aft entering the country. Dozens of countries, including astir each of Germany’s nonstop neighbors, person present been added to this category.