Germany today removed Portugal from the list of countries banned from entering the country due to the high prevalence of the Delta strain of the Covid-19 virus, the authorities announced.
The ban on entry into Germany has been lifted for five countries, also the United Kingdom, India, Russia and Nepal, as well as Portugal, announced the Robert-Koch Institute for Health Surveillance, and will come into force on Wednesday.
Portugal is classified by Germany as an area with “concern variants” regarding the pandemic, namely due to the spread of the Delta strain, which in practice results in a travel ban in place since last week, due to the activation of the brake mechanism the European Union to deal with worrying situations.
That country only allows German citizens or those residing in that country to travel from Portugal, who still have to be subjected to a quarantine of 14 days after arrival.
According to the new rules announced today by the Robert-Koch Institute, Portugal and the other four countries will be removed to the second level of risk, called “high incidence areas” of the Covid-19 variant.
Travelers from areas in this category are not required to be quarantined if they can prove that they are already fully vaccinated, or that they have contracted the disease and have recovered.
The rest can have a reduced quarantine of ten days if they test negative after five days.
Eleven countries will continue on the red list of the new variant: Brazil, Mozambique, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Uruguay.
On Thursday of last week, Germany had already admitted a reduction in the assessment of Portugal.
The German ban on travel from Portugal is the only ban in the European Union when the Covid-19 digital certificate comes into force.
The European Commission had considered that the ban on non-essential travel to Portugal adopted by Germany is not "totally aligned" with what was recommended by Brussels and a source from the community executive told Lusa that it would be analyzed if the measure "is proportional".
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