Want a Beach Break? You’ll Need the Right Passport
Instead of a clear and synchronized travel approach from countries, what’s emerging is a confusing patchwork of national policies.
Not on the beach.
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A German man was frustrated that he couldn’t visit his holiday home in a sparsely populated area of southern Sweden without entering a mandatory 14-day quarantine on his return. So he challenged the requirement in a German regional court this week, and won.
Following that Lower Saxony ruling several other German federal states have said that they too will stop forcing returnees to isolate for a fortnight. Germany’s interior minister, Horst Seehofer agrees, although only up to a point: Americans, Russians and other non-European Union nationals should still serve their time in isolation, he said.