The German Ministry of Health is pushing for stricter entry rules due to the ever increasing number of infections. This emerges from a draft law. The regulations for travelers from Covid-19 risk areas are to be tightened.

Accordingly, travelers, airlines, bus or train companies will have an increased information obligation in the future. As a result, anyone wishing to travel to Germany from a risk area can be obliged to provide the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) with personal information and whereabouts ten days before and ten days after entry. For this purpose, the timely introduction of a digital entry registration would also be conceivable. In addition, travel companies are to be obliged to forward passenger-related data to the authorities. Changes in continued wages according to the Infection Protection Act can also be expected, as aero.de reports. According to the draft, compensation should be excluded “if the quarantine is based on an avoidable trip to a risk area identified 48 hours before the start of the trip”.