Over the weekend in Germany, there's been this chatter going on of a new German Corona-ban rule. The deal? Well....there would a list of countries with hype going on about infections. So any German traveling to those countries and returning.....would face a new ban rule.
You'd arrive at the airport in question and be directed to test for the virus. This is not the quickie-test but the PCR-test. You'd then leave and go home to participate in a self-quarantine....five days. Then you'd go to your local medical facility and do another PCR-test.
Financial cost? Well....first, there's this five days of leave which you'd have to figure into your leave schedule and you'd be giving up a minimum of three days of leave in this mess. The average PCR test? It's between 50 and 75 Euro. So you could be talking about 150 Euro coming out of someone's pocket (even if it's the government pocket, it's really your tax revenue paying for it).
The decision to force this issue? It would appear they are waiting for more hype of another 'wave' before they press on with this issue.
The curious thing....you could plan this great vacation to Crete, knowing six weeks prior to the trip that no serious Covid situation was there, and mid-way through the two weeks of your vacation....discover that Greece moved up on the virus list and is now considered a threat area. So your return to Germany is a bit 'sour', and now you have to look at your leave time and how you got forced into five additional days of 'vacation-quarantine' in Germany.
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