Germany wipes its list of Covid-19 'high-risk areas' clean

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Germany is removing all countries currently on its list of high-risk areas as part of a rethink of its coronavirus travel rules that will take effect on Thursday, AP reports.

The country's disease control centre, the Robert Koch Institute, said that from now on Germany's list will only include places where high infection rates are linked to variants of Covid-19 that are more virulent than the currently dominant Omicron variant, which in many cases leads to relatively mild illness.

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