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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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
As COVID-19 cases linked to the threatening Delta variant rise across Europe, German Chancellor Angela Markel said that Europe is “on thin ice.”
On 26 November at an emergency meeting in Geneva, Switzerland WHO's Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution designated PANGO lineage B.1.1.529 a variant of concern (VOC) and gave it the designation Omicron (skipping Nu and Xi, the next letters in the Greek alphabet in keeping with its nomenclature protocol introduced for the Delta variant).
Germany has begun new controls at all of its land borders as part of a crackdown on migration, placing restrictions on a wide area of free movement known as the Schengen Zone and stirring anger ...
All borders of the country are closed during the lockdown, except for designated ports of entry for the transportation of fuel, cargo, and goods. [ 308 ] International and domestic passenger flights are prohibited, except for flights authorised by the Ministry of Transport, for the evacuation of South African nationals in foreign countries, and ...