April the 7th, 2021 - The coronavirus pandemic is continuing to hold the entire world in its iron grip with lockdowns and complicated measures being introduced and changed frequently. With that said, can one even enter Croatia without quarantine? Yes and no.

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, those passengers who don't have a negative molecular (PCR) or a negative rapid antigen test that is not older than 48 hours when entering the country will be entered into a digital monitoring platform for COVID-19 as people who must go into mandatory self-isolation/quarantine in which they must spend 10 days, according to a report from 24sata.

If they want to shorten that time spent in mandatory quarantine/self-isolation, passengers can be tested for the novel coronavirus immediately upon entering Croatia, but they must remain in self-isolation until a negative test result arrives. This is the procedure adopted by the National Civil Protection Headquarters on March 31st, 2021, and it refers to all people entering the country.

Those who enter the country and want to be tested only after arriving in Croatia must order their tests. Going for their coronavirus test is a justified reason for leaving home or your accommodation for the duration of mandatory quarantine.

Of course, those people must wear a mask and adhere to all other current epidemiological measures. The individual then must send their negative test result to the email address they received on the leaflet given to them upon entry by the border police, and based on that result, the police will remove the person's obligation to remain in self-isolation within the aforementioned digital platform.

If a passenger is allowed to enter Croatia on the basis of a having a negative rapid antigen test and intends to stay in Croatia for more than 10 days, then they must be retested for the novel virus by the tenth day from the date of issue of that initial test.

Those who are tested upon entering the country and end up receiving a positive test result or develop symptoms of the disease during their time spent in quarantine must contact a doctor. If they aren't residents of the country or for whatever reason don't have a GP, the owner of the facility in which they're residing must provide the contact details for a doctor for them.

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April the 2nd, 2021 - Following hopeful announcements of German motorhomes on Croatian roads and Istria being promoted by Die Welt for eager German tourists, things have taken a dramatic downhill turn as the German authorities place Croatia on the high coronavirus risk list.

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, on Thursday, Germany included the counties of Istria and Bjelovar-Bilogora in the list of regions with a high risk of coronavirus infection, and things have only become worse as the German Government place Croatia as a country in that unfortunate category.

Due to the growing number of newly infected people, the Robert Koch State Epidemiological Institute has declared the last two Croatian counties that were not on the list as risk areas.

A negative coronavirus test and ten days of mandatory quarantine

The above decision to place Croatia on the high risk list takes effect on Saturday, April the 3rd, and means that all people coming to Germany from Croatia will have to present a negative test for coronavirus no older than 48 hours and be quarantined for ten days after returning regardless of the result.

Self-isolation can be terminated after five days with if another negative test result is obtained after the fifth day.

Along with the Balearic islands, Istria has so far been one of the rare tourist destinations for German citizens that was not on the list of high risk areas.

Numerous Germans travelled for the Easter holidays despite appeals from the authorities not to

Despite appeals from politicians, many Germans travelled abroad for the Easter holidays this week.

Due to the large number of tourists traveling to Mallorca, the German Government passed a decree on Tuesday requiring travellers returning from that Spanish island to show a negative coronavirus test, even though Mallorca isn't currently on the list of risk regions. The interior ministry explained this by saying that those people could have easily had contact with tourists from other countries which are on the list.

The German Government also considered banning travel abroad entirely, as the United Kingdom has done unless that travel is for necessary purposes, but dropped it for both constitutional and legal reasons.

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