Travel Germany pulls Vietnam from high Covid risk list

Shoppers wear mask and fill Cologne's main shopping street in Cologne, Germany, December, 2020. Photo by Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay

Germany has removed 60 countries and territories from its list of high-risk Covid areas, including Vietnam ‘based on the spread of the Omicron variant.’

"With the widespread occurrence of the Omicron variant, the probability of this variant to have a severe course is shown to be less compared to the previous prevalent variants, therefore, no areas will be considered as high-risk areas," the German public health institution Robert Koch Institute stated.

Starting from Thursday, tourists from Vietnam arriving in Germany would be exempt from 10-day home quarantine and skip online medical declaration.

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