Starting this Sunday, any citizen from Albania wishing to go to Germany will need to have a coronavirus test, made known this Friday the German Embassy in Albania.

The German Embassy says the new rule set by the federal government is for 25 countries, including Albania, considered as areas with a high incidence of Covid-1

"From Sunday - Compulsory testing before entering Germany!

The Federal Government has today classified 25 countries worldwide as areas with a high incidence of Covid-19, including Albania. The requirement of pre-entry testing in Germany is in force on Sunday: Persons over the age of six traveling to Germany and staying in a high-incidence area for the last ten days prior to entering Germany (for example in Albania) must have with them at the moment of entry into Germany the document proving the negative test for infection with Corona Virus SARS-CoV-2 (PCR or Antigen test) and present it, if required, to both the authorities and the agency of travel before the departure. This regulation applies equally to German citizens as well as those of other nationalities. 

In any case, the test must not have been done earlier than 40 hours before entering Germany (from the moment of receiving the material). The document with the test result must be in printed or electronic form in German, English or French. The test result must be stored for a period of at least ten days after entering Germany. 

Persons traveling to Germany or those returning to Germany from Albania should thus consider three criteria: 

- Entry only with negative testing;

- 10 days of forced quarantine in Germany;

- Registration of entry (www.einreiseanmeldung.de)," German Embassy to Albania noted.