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Germany to close borders to Czech regions, Austria's Tyrol
Over a surge in infections of more contagious variants
11 February, 18:36
(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, FEB 11 - Germany will ban travel from
Czech border regions as well as Austria's Tyrol over a troubling
surge in infections of more contagious coronavirus variants,
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Thursday. "The states of
Bavaria and Saxony today asked the government to class Tyrol and
the border regions of the Czech Republic as virus mutation
areas, and to implement border controls," Seehofer told the
Sueddeutsche daily. "That has been agreed with the (German)
chancellor and the vice-chancellor," he said, adding that the
new curbs will begin on Sunday. Germany in late January banned
most travellers from countries classed as so-called mutation
areas or places hardest hit by new, more contagious coronavirus
variants. (ANSA-AFP).
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