ROZVADOV, Czech Republic — Czechs hurried to cross the German border on Saturday a day before it closes as part of Berlin’s effort to stop the spread of highly infectious coronavirus strains.
Germany said on Thursday it would ban travel from the Czech Republic as well as from Austria’s Tyrol region over a surge in the virus variants.
Germany classed the Czech Republic and Austria’s Tyrol as hotspots and opted to implement border controls in its southern states of Bavaria and Saxony as of Sunday.
In normal times, there is free passage between fellow member states of the European Union like the Czech Republic and Germany.
“I must cross the border before midnight,” profess…
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