Germany declares Albania and Northern Macedonia high-risk areas

As of Sunday (16.01.2022) Albania, Northern Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and a number of other countries, due to the high numbers of new crown infections, re-enter the list of high risk countries. This was announced by the Robert Koch Institute on Friday (January 14, 2022). Thus, with the exception of Kosovo, the other five countries of the Western Balkans are high risk areas. Montenegro has been on this list since August 2021.

More than 60 countries have been added to the list, including Austria. With the latter, Germany’s nine neighbors: Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands – are on the list of high-risk countries, which currently include about 140 of the over 200 possible countries .

Tourist travel warning

High-risk areas are places or regions where the number of infected during the past seven days has been over 100 for every 1000 inhabitants. This is the main criterion, but there are other criteria, which make an area, high risk area, such as high speed of spread, hospitalization rate or low testing rate.

Digital recording starts on Sunday

Travelers who in the last ten days have been in one of the list places must register on the digital portal https://www.einreiseanmeldung.de. For countries like Albania, Northern Macedonia and others, which have been added to the list this week, registration can be done only from Sunday onwards, ie from 16.01.2021, at 00:00.

Quarantine rules

Unvaccinated people should have a negative test with them and automatically enter the quarantine, for 10 days. However, they have the right to quarantine after five days, if the test is positive, the Ministry of Health announces. Children under the age of six do not need to take the test, but should do the quarantine, which ends automatically after five days./DW/

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