Who return from abroad back to Germany, can make in the future, on the two contact arms of weeks in the own four walls in focus. This scheme recommends the Federal government after a decision of the crisis Cabinet from the mounting of the countries. You should of 10. April for travellers to apply, the goods for several days abroad. There are exceptions such as for Truck drivers or commuters.
But what will change now? now people from third countries may cases, only in the exception to enter the European Union. For citizens of European countries entry restrictions for Germany now, with exceptions for commuters or people who live here. The main new feature is that all of the return to a multi-day stay abroad to their domicile in Germany, you need to go into a “mandatory two-week quarantine”. And regardless of the nationality. Who comes by plane or ship, must be made known to the travel route and contact the health Department at his place of residence should then monitor compliance with the quarantine.
According to the modified infection protection act would probably have been an order from the Federal government possible. However, it is in the new regulation, only a recommendation of the Federal government to the Länder.
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How many planes arrive yet?
At the Frankfurt airport, especially return flights and cargo airlines to determine these days the image. With the foreseeable end of the tourist flights, the program will fall to five per cent of the usual level, says the operator, Fraport. In Düsseldorf, the trade alone, according to a speaker’s now, at only five percent. At Munich airport on Monday, 48 flight movements – usually it’s be beginning of the week to around 1,200 a day, is it. The number of passengers at the Berlin airports Schönefeld and Tegel deck is currently under five percent of normal levels, with shares, an airport spokesman.
How to have handled the health services so far?
There were, depending on the travel area have different rules. In the case of certain heavily-affected countries, the pilots had to inform before landing, the Tower on the health status of their passengers. Travelers should fill out get out of the business cards with contact details and whereabouts. Travelers from high-risk areas, which included at times only parts of a country, however, was not treated in a fundamentally different way.
The approach is different but yet so far, from state to state: At the airport of Düsseldorf passengers arriving in the Terminal at Poster posters and monitors about behaviour and hygiene recommendations informed. At the Munich airport, a spokeswoman for the state office for health and food safety (LGL) are asked to information, in principle, all of the returnees by the Federal Ministry of health, to embark for 14 days in home quarantine. The Berlin police informed via Twitter, Arriving from abroad would be addressed and the need for a 14-day quarantine pointed out.
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distribution And what is happening to the still open borders?
the German interior Minister, Horst Seehofer (CSU) have extended the controls, as there are on the borders with Austria, Luxembourg, France, Denmark and Switzerland, on the remaining sections of the Border. However, other Cabinet members and several German States against it. They fear, among other things, that on the borders of long traffic jams form, which would complicate a delivery of food or other important goods.
Which means: At the borders to Poland, the Czech Republic, Belgium and the Netherlands – as of now – will be introduced no controls. However, the quarantine regulations and the requirement that most of the people are not allowed to anyway travel also apply to anyone who comes from there – assuming the police hits you in the 30-Kilometer border area.
Why not arrange tested quickly – instead of quarantine?
To prove the Coronavirus is usually applied to a so-called PCR-Test. The Test in the laboratory takes about four to five hours. Although there is also equipment for rapid tests, with only a limited number of Tests, but it is often possible, said Jan Kramer, a specialist in laboratory medicine and Internal medicine. In addition, they are material-consuming and expensive. For Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, a virologist at the German centre for infection research, the Problem lies rather in the fact that the Incoming would have to be tested to be sure that you are not infected.
the insulation for the returnees Is useful?
The virologist Schmidt-Chanasit considers the recommendation with a view to the different handling of the pandemic abroad is useful. “We are aware of our measures in Germany and know how they will be enforced. We don’t know about other countries.“ The quarantine could deter people also, to travel abroad, and thus further chains of Infection prevent. In Germany, we now come to a Phase, in which imported cases increasingly epidemic over the course of help, said Hajo Zeeb, an epidemiologist at the Leibniz-Institute for prevention research and epidemiology. In the practical implementation of the recommendation Zeeb but trouble – for example, if a large number of travelers return at once and in different places of residence in Germany must travel.
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