As of: January 9th, 2022 1:40 a.m.
As of today, almost 40 other countries are considered to be corona high-risk areas. Including Luxembourg, Sweden and Israel. Anyone who enters from these countries and is not fully vaccinated or recovered must be in quarantine.
Due to the high number of corona infections, almost 40 countries are now fully or partially high-risk areas. Anyone who enters from such an area and is not fully vaccinated or recovered has to be in quarantine for ten days and can only get rid of it with a negative test five days after arrival at the earliest.
Affected are, among others, Luxembourg, Sweden, Australia, Argentina, the United Arab Emirates with the winter holiday destination Dubai, Israel and Kenya. Overall, the number of high-risk areas increased to more than 100 countries in one fell swoop. This means that around every second country in the world is again a high-risk area.
Austria has not yet been a high-risk area
Of the neighboring countries of Germany, only Austria is not a high-risk area. The classification as a high-risk area is accompanied by a travel warning from the Federal Foreign Office for unnecessary tourist trips. It makes it easier for tourists to cancel trips that have already been booked free of charge, but does not mean a travel ban.
Countries and regions with a particularly high risk of infection are classified as high-risk areas. But not only the infection numbers are decisive for this. Other criteria are the speed at which the virus is spreading, the burden on the health system or a lack of data on the corona situation.