Berlin: Germany will ask people who enter the country that have not been vaccinated or recently recovered from Covid-19 to show the results of negative tests starting on Sunday.
Changes approved by the cabinet on Friday apply to people aged 12 years and over.
It came in the midst of increasing concerns about infection that was brought back from a summer vacation that drives a relatively low German case level.
School holidays in some German countries will end around a week.
At present, people who are not vaccinated traveling through air are needed to test the negative before they ride planes to Germany, regardless of where they come from.
People who cross into Germany with other means of transportation now must prove their status.
The authorities are expected to conduct spot checks on the land border rather than imposing blanket control.
People who arrive from countries listed in the highest risk category of Germany as the “virus variant area” must also present tests if they are vaccinated or recently recovered.
The list is currently including Brazil and South Africa but no European countries.
The German Disease Control Center said this week that more than four infection fifths in Germany were still in the country, but there had been an increase in infected people who might be exposed to overseas viruses, especially in Spain and Turkey, two popular holiday destinations.
, The level of German infection is still much lower than some other European countries, but has crept higher because it reached a low of 4.9 new weekly cases per 100,000 population at 6.
July on Friday, the image reached 16.5 new residents in the past , It was a worrying official when a more contagious Delta variant has become dominant in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, while vaccination has slowed.
On Thursday, 51.5% of the German population was entirely vaccinated and 61.5% had received at least one dose of vaccine.
Authorities tried to make creative ways to receive a more skeptical German taste for vaccination.
On Friday, the vaccination center in East City Sonnenberg offers free bratwurst for all immigrants, which, according to MDR regional public publishers, are filled with greater absorption than usual in the first few hours.
The Minister of Health, Jens Spahn, noted that “in general, travel is easier with vaccination, vaccinated testing and, in principle, does not have to enter quarantine.” He added that “vaccination offer for everyone at the summer kiosk.
We have enough vaccines.” And fiddling in the rules of entry, the cabinet decided on Friday to simplify the German risk category system.
It cuts the number of categories of three to two, eliminates the lowest level, which is almost no practical limits applied.