Corona: New rules for entry planned

Lisa Weidner studied German and sociology and completed several journalistic internships. She is a volunteer at Hubert Burda Media Verlag and writes for the "Meine Familie und Ich" magazine and on nutrition and health topics.

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The federal states are to adopt new quarantine rules on October 15. At the same time, the government would like to introduce digital registration for people entering Germany. Only those who have previously been in a corona risk area need to register via the new online portal.

Digital registration for travelers

The new test strategy for travelers "will be introduced on the basis of a new legal basis," said the spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Steve Alter, on Thursday of the German press agency. For this purpose, the Ministry worked together with the Ministry of Health to develop a new model quarantine ordinance, which the Länder must then put into effect on their own responsibility. "For this reason, the digital entry registration will also only be introduced at this point in time - on October 15th".

According to dpa information, anyone who enters their details in the portal receives a confirmation that they should show during a check - for example at the airport by the federal police. At the same time, the data is also sent to the relevant health department. Anyone who does not meet their obligation to register risks a fine. There should still be exemptions for commuters and other travelers in so-called small border traffic.

Secure data paths to health authorities

In order to guarantee that all health authorities will be technically able to receive the data in a secure way by mid-October, there will be a temporary option for data retrieval from a secure Deutsche Post portal in addition to a VPN tunnel solution.

The federal government has declared regions in eleven EU countries to be corona risk areas and is now warning against traveling there. These include regions directly bordering Germany in the Czech Republic and Austria as well as the capitals of Denmark, Portugal and Ireland - Copenhagen, Lisbon and Dublin. You can find out which states, regions and cities also count in our article "Coronavirus: These are the risk areas". (lw / dpa)

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