The Canary Islands ceased to be, as of this Sunday, a high-risk zone for Covid for Germany, which has also removed Catalonia, Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha and Valencia from this list. However, as Hosteltur reported, the German country has maintained the rest of Spain in this classification, including the Balearic Islands.
The Robert Koch (RKI) Institute of Virology communicated these changes last Friday, when publishing the weekly update of the list of risk areas due to the pandemic, a classification that it prepares together with the ministries of Foreign Affairs, Health and Interior.
Since July 23, Germany classified all of Spain as a high-incidence area, which forced unvaccinated German tourists to quarantine upon returning to their country. However, since this Sunday, the Canary Islands, Catalonia, Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha and Valencia became simply risk zones, the least serious of the three categories, behind high-risk zone and risk zone due to a dangerous variant.
Hosteltur points out, however, that "it is difficult" to estimate the effect that the decision may have on German tourism, which has two of its main destinations in Spain in the Canary Islands and Catalonia, given that summer vacations have concluded or are about to end in more than half of the 16 German federal states.
