Citing concern over the potential spread of more contagious variants of the COVID-19 virus, Germany has banned most travel from the United Kingdom.
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The ban goes into effect today, Sunday, May 23.
According to a statement reprinted by the Washington D.C. publication The Hill, the ban does not apply to German citizens or “persons with a domicile and right of residence in the Federal Republic of Germany and their spouses or registered civil partners from the same household, and minor children.”
The restrictions also do not apply to those who remain in the airport as they transfer from one flight to another.
German citizens and residents who are allowed to travel from the U.K. must quarantine for two weeks upon arrival, the German embassy said.
The decision has created more concern about whether the United States can finally create a travel corridor with the United Kingdom.
Germany’s ban came on the same day that its version of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Robert Koch Institute, added Great Britain and Northern Ireland among its list of international areas of concern, labeling it a “virus variant area.”