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Due to high coronavirus infection rates, Germany has classified Iceland and individual regions in nine other European countries as risk areas in addition to the whole of Belgium. The Robert Koch Institute updated its risk list accordingly last night and included parts of Great Britain for the first time, including Wales and Northern Ireland.
In France, the regions Pays de la Loire and Burgundy (Bourgogne) were added. This means that in Germany’s largest neighboring country, only the border region of Grand Est, which was once particularly hard hit by the pandemic, is now excluded from classification as a risk area.
Expansion to the whole of Belgium
In Belgium, only the capital Brussels was recently listed as a risk area. The extension to the entire country now also affects border regions with North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.
For the first time, the federal government added areas in the two Baltic states of Lithuania and Estonia to the risk list. Regions in Ireland, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary and Romania were also added.
In the evening, the German Foreign Office published a travel warning for Belgium, Romania and Lithuania on the Internet. The classification as a risk area and the subsequent travel warning will be issued if the number of new coronavirus infections exceeds the mark of 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days.
— Hector Pascua Source: ORF.at/agencies
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