Berlin was taking this step due to the reported
mutation of the coronavirus, according to government spokeswoman Martina Fietz. The German government maintains contact with the European partners, she wrote on Twitter.
The federal police also warned that people should only travel to the UK if it is absolutely necessary.
The Interior Ministry has instructed federal police to systematically check travelers from the UK and South Africa, with immediate effect, a ministry spokesperson said, adding that control measures are to be closely coordinated with local health authorities and that travelers should expect longer waiting times at the borders.
Earlier, the
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COVID: Short on ICU nurses, Germany looks abroad
Amid a nursing staff shortage, German hospitals have had to take matters into their own hands. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, a new arrival from Mexico proved very valuable at Berlin s well-known Charite Hospital.
Nurse Herbert Perez works in Berlin Charite s intensive care unit
The story of German Health Minister Jens Spahn and Judith Heepe, the nursing director at Berlin s Charite Hospital, is a little like the tale of the hare and the hedgehog. Heepe, like the wily hedgehog, is somehow always faster.
In September 2019, Spahn was in Mexico signing a contract to speed up the process for Mexican nursing staff to receive work permits in Germany. Heepe had already been there. A month before that, Spahn had sent his state secretary to the Philippines on a recruitment mission. Heepe had been there, too.