All visitors had to leave on Monday until 12 o’clock, their properties, officials said. They had adopted in connection with the Corona-crisis at the weekend, an emergency Ordinance, which for the time being up to 10. May apply. Of the year, around ten million tourist Nights spent in the coast province in the southwest of the country more than four millions of German have to be booked. The province feared an Overload of the health system. “With an influx of tourists who need medical help, we can’t help,” it said on its website. The overnight ban applies to Bungalow parks, Campings and Hotels, but also accommodation in private homes and a Marina. Tourists are not allowed to stay in their own apartments. All measures are reported also for visitors from the Netherlands.
North Rhine-Westphalia’s Minister for Europe, Stephan Holthoff-Pförtner (CDU) stressed that the German-Dutch border will not be closed. “Open borders are a great achievement of the European Union. The German-Dutch border is still not open, also to break chains and key supply flows and to ensure the mobility of commuters of the critical infrastructure across borders,” he said the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” (Tuesday). A task force of North Rhine-Westphalia, Belgium and the Netherlands, synchronize the common activities in the fight against Corona.
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