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Germany plans travel restrictions over virus variants
BERLIN, Jan 28, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Germany is planning to ban most
travellers from countries hardest hit by coronavirus variants, the interior
minister said on Thursday, in a bid to stop the strains from reversing recent
progress on lowering infections.
“At the moment within the government, we are coordinating towards the aim
of refusing inbound travel from mutation areas,” said Horst Seehofer.
“We are concentrating these travel restrictions on mutation areas, that is
at the moment Britain, Portugal, South Africa and Brazil.”
BSS/AFP/IJ/1627 hrs