Due to the strong rise in the number of coronavirus infections in Spain, the Foreign office now warns against tourist travel in the three regions of the most popular vacation lands of the Germans. From the formal travel warning are affected, according to a communication of the foreign office by the Friday of Catalonia with the tourist metropolis of Barcelona and the beaches of the Costa Brava, as well as the West in the inland regions of Aragón and Navarra, but not Mallorca and the Canary Islands.

Before the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) had arranged regions, the regions as a risk. This was highlighted in an updating of the corresponding RKI-list from Friday. In the three areas in Spain has been exceeded, according to the Federal Ministry of health, the threshold of more than 50 new infections are among per 100,000 population in the past seven days. In the EU, Luxembourg is already on the list, which is for German tourists is important.

For travellers returning from officially classified high-risk areas to Corona in the next week, a test of duty, and to come-through voluntary Tests, which are intended to be for all Entering the country from abroad free of charge.