Travel map update: Belgium has been added to countries with low coronavirus risk

Belgium has now been added to the group of low-risk countries while Germany remains among the low-risk countries despite the recent rise in coronavirus cases there.

Both Czechs and foreigners can now go to or from Belgium without having to produce a negative result from a coronavirus test or stay in quarantine for two weeks. Czechs can also visit Belgium and other low-risk countries as tourists.

A higher number of new coronavirus cases were registered in Germany over the past several days and the country said on Sunday that it confirmed 687 new cases in the last 24 hours.

“We will monitor the situation. It seems that it is the issue of local epicenters, like in our country. In Germany it was slaughterhouses. We are not considering moving Germany among the more risky countries,” Health Minister Adam Vojtech said Monday.

According to the ministry, EU states that remain in the high-risk category are Sweden, Portugal, and Poland’s Silesia province, which borders on the Czech region of Moravia-Silesia.

“Although the situation in the Polish province is getting slightly better, the number of the infected increased in the Moravia-Silesia region and so we have to be careful about the loosening of the measures,” Vojtech said.

Citizens of high-risk countries can enter the Czech Republic only for purposes of work, to see family or in urgent situations.

The United Kingdom will stay a medium-risk country, which means that Czechs can return without any limitations from the UK, while British citizens must show a negative test result when coming to the Czech Republic, the Health Ministry said in a press release on Monday.