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Two of the countries the residents of which have faced some of the harshest travel restrictions since the beginning of 2021 – Brazil and South Africa – have finally been removed from Germany’s list of high-risk areas.
In an announcement of the Robert Koch Institute, which is the German federal government agency and research institute responsible for disease control and prevention located in Berlin and Wernigerode, the same has noted that Brazil and South Africa have been removed from the high-risk list, alongside Bangladesh, Botswana, Eswatini, India, Ireland’ the West Region, Lesotho, Malawi, Nepal, Portugal’s Algarve region, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Cyprus.
The decision means that travellers from these countries reaching Germany are no longer subject to strict entry requirements, in particular those who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 with one of the vaccines accepted as proof of immunity, as well as those who haven’t recovered from the virus in the last 180 days, as the same have been subject to tighter entry restrictions than those who have been vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19.
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Vaccinated and recovered travellers from these countries no longer need to have a purpose of entry, as they can travel to Germany even for tourism purposes now.
The decision has become effective today, September 19, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
At the same time, the RKI has added the following countries and regions to the high-risk list, which means that travellers from the same will have to isolate upon arrival for a period of ten days, which period can be ended for those who present proof of vaccination or recovery from COVID-19:
Both South Africa and Brazil have been listed as virus variant areas until summer this year. While South Africa was removed from this category in the first week of August, Brazil, on the other hand, was removed from the list later on August 22.
The bans had brought lots of difficulties to thousands of students and workers, who were set to start their new lives in Germany this year, for which SchengenVisaInfo.com has reported continuously.
According to World Health Organization, since the beginning of the pandemic, Brazil, a country of 211 million population, has recorded 21,034,610 COVID-19 cases, 14,780 of which within the last 24 hours.
Whereas South Africa, which counts 58.56 million residents, reported 4,214 cases within the last 24 hours, bringing the number of Coronavirus cases detected since the beginning of the pandemic to 2,873,415.