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On 17 March, Germany along with the European Union closed its borders to travellers from outside the bloc for 30 days, with exceptions for some European countries and designated essential purposes, and advised its citizens not to travel abroad. [209] Inbound travel to Frankfurt Airport was suspended the same evening. Chancellor Merkel also ...
However, the country's borders would remain closed to most international travel. [ 259 ] Following a new outbreak consisting of four cases of community transmission in Auckland on 11 August, the Government placed the Auckland Region on a Level 3 lockdown from 12:00 am on 12 August while the rest of the country move to Level 2 at the same time.
Israel: Effective 28 November 2021, Israel closed its borders again for foreigners due to the Omicron variant. [40] Japan: Effective 28 December 2020, Japan closed its borders to all non-residents. [41] [42] As of 29 November 2021, Japan closed its borders also to business travellers and foreign students due to the Omicron variant. [43]
As COVID-19 cases linked to the threatening Delta variant rise across Europe, German Chancellor Angela Markel said that Europe is “on thin ice.”
Cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in countries on opposite sides of the world Sunday and many governments rushed to close their borders even as scientists cautioned that it ...
Like many COVID-19 variants that have surfaced recently, HV.1 is related to the Omicron strain, says Amesh A. Adalja, M.D., infectious disease expert and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center ...
On 24 April 2021, Germany banned flights from India with effect from 26 April, due to concern about the Delta variant that had emerged in that country and was suspected to be responsible for the steep rise in COVID-19 cases there. Germans and foreigners with German residence permit, among others, would be exempt upon presentation of a negative ...
BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's government announced plans to impose tighter controls at all of the country's land borders in what it called an attempt to tackle irregular migration and protect the ...