The German Robert Koch Institute is really kicking the so-called “high-risk club”, as 39 states are newly classified as so-called “high-risk areas”. The states that have received the German negative seal include Australia, Estonia, Iceland, Ireland and the United Arab Emirates.

The criteria that lead the Robert Koch Institute to classify states as so-called high-risk areas are extremely opaque and in some cases difficult to understand, as states with a lower incidence than the Budes Republic are often put on this “black list”. This is always accompanied by a travel warning issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Package trips don't have much of that anymore, because more and more tour operators are refusing to allow cancellations free of charge due to the inflationary and often incomprehensible practice.

The reclassification to the so-called high-risk list has no practical effects for those who have been completely vaccinated or have recovered. Under certain circumstances, only the so-called travel registration must be completed. Unvaccinated people have to go into a ten-day quarantine, from which they can free themselves on the fifth day at their own expense. The reclassifications come into force on Sunday. At the same time, Ukraine will be removed from the RKI's high-risk list.

The following countries are new on the German "high risk list":

• Angola
• Argentina
• Australia
• The Bahamas
• Bahrain
• Belize
• The plurinational state of Bolivia
• Cape Verde
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Ivory Coast
• Estonia
• Fiji
• France - the French overseas departments of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, St. Martin and St. Barthélemy
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Grenada
• Guinea
• to Iceland
• Israel
• Jamaica
• Qatar
• Kenya
• The Comoros
• Kuwait
• Luxembourg
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Netherlands - the overseas parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands of Aruba and Curaçao
• Nigeria
• Panama
• Rwanda
• Zambia
• Sweden
• Sierra Leone
• South Sudan
• Togo
• Uganda
• Uruguay
• United Arab Emirates