Germany has turned back thousands of travelers at its borders with Austria and the Czech Republic variant.

The checkpoints aim to slow the spread of highly infectious Corona virus variants first found in Britain and South Africa.

Everyone must show a negative co vid 19 test result to enter the country.

A coronavirus variant develops when part of the structure of the virus changes while reproducing over time, it becomes the new variant.

More than 4000 variants have developed from the virus that causes Cove in 19, but not all are still active.