Corona has the world under control – and the list of high-risk areas is getting longer and longer!
As the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Friday, the Omicron variant ensures that a good three quarters of all around 200 countries in the world are classified as high-risk areas.
In addition to the 136 countries that have been on the RKI risk list for a week, another 19 countries will be added this Sunday (January 23, midnight). A total of 155 countries are now on the list. No country will therefore be removed from the list.
These countries are coming
According to the RKI, from Sunday on Romania, Moldova, Kosovo, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Japan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, the Maldives, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador will apply Paraguay new as high-risk areas.
Anyone entering the country from a high-risk area and who does not have at least full basic protection with the second syringe that is usually necessary or has recovered must be in quarantine for ten days and can free themselves from this at the earliest five days after entry with a negative test. For children who have not yet reached the age of six, the isolation ends automatically five days after entry.
The classification as a high-risk area is linked to a travel warning from the Federal Foreign Office for non-essential tourist trips. It makes it easier for tourists to cancel trips that have already been booked free of charge, but does not mean that they are banned from travel. The classification as a risk area is made after a joint analysis and decision by the Federal Ministry of Health, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of the Interior.
Countries and regions with a particularly high risk of infection are classified as high-risk areas. However, it is not only the number of infections that is decisive for this. Other criteria are the speed at which the virus is spreading, the burden on the healthcare system and the lack of data on the corona situation.