Germany lifts travel warnings for Malta, the United Kingdom and Albania. The Portuguese area of the Algarve is also no longer classified as a risk area. The state-run Robert Koch Institute made these changes, which are used as a basis for the travel warnings from the Federal Foreign Office.
The German classifications are primarily based on the seven-day incidence. Virus mutations have also been taken into account for a few weeks. The multi-level system begins at an incidence of 50, which then results in an entry in the risk list. However, one is not always consistent when deleting, because the Canaries, for example, have had a seven-day incidence of less than 50 for a long time and are still designated as a risk area.
The Finnish regions of Uusimaa and Varsinais-Suomi as well as the Norwegian province of Rogaland have made it from Germany's “red list”. Armenia, Montenegro, Poland and Hungary were downgraded from high incidence areas to risk areas.