Germany adds the U.S. to its ‘high risk’ list, requiring some travelers to quarantine.
German authorities classified the United States as “high risk” on Friday because of the rising number of cases there, affecting unvaccinated …
German authorities classified the United States as “high risk” on Friday because of the rising number of cases there, affecting unvaccinated tourists who wish to travel to the European country.
After weeks of being able to visit Germany relatively easily, American tourists and other nonessential travelers will have to quarantine for 10 days, starting Sunday, if they cannot document full vaccination or immunity from a past infection. They can shorten their quarantine with a negative test on the fifth day.
The new classification is part of a weekly assessment done by German authorities based mostly on infection rates in other countries. Turkey and Israel were also reclassified as high risk.
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Cases in the United States — which reported 186,840 new cases on Friday — have steadily risen since early July, driven largely by the Delta variant. Germany has averaged about 3,000 new cases per day in the past seven days, according to a New York Times database.
Germany had reopened its borders to tourists from the United States in late June, after more than a year of a complete ban on nonessential travelers from most countries outside the European Union. The United States has maintained its ban on European travelers since the early days of the pandemic.