Germany has announced that from tomorrow (Sunday) it will remove the Canary Islands from its list of high-risk areas due to the improvement of the epidemiological data in the archipelago, as well as four other regions of Spain: Catalonia, Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha and Valencia, but that they are keeping the rest of Spain in the high-risk classification, including the Balearic Islands.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) of virology communicated these changes yesterday when publishing the weekly update of the list of areas at risk from the pandemic, a classification that is developed together with the ministries of Foreign, Health and Interior.
The five regions mentioned, including the Canary Islands, simply now become risk areas, the least serious of their three categories, behind the high-risk area and the risk area for dangerous variants.
The change means that travellers over 12 years old from these areas will no longer have to quarantine for ten days when arriving back in Germany (five if they present a negative test on the fifth day), however, the presentation of a negative test or a vaccination certificate when entering the country is still a mandatory requirement.
It is difficult to estimate the positive effect that this decision may have on German tourism, which has two of its main destinations in Spain as the Canary Islands and Catalonia.
