Coronavirus: Germany puts Spain’s Catalonia, Navarre and Aragon on high-risk list
By DW
02 August 2020 |
11:00 am
Holidaymakers returning from Catalonia, home to Barcelona, will have to present a negative coronavirus test or go into quarantine upon arriving in Germany. It's one of three Spanish regions newly designated high risk.
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