Inconsistent travel rules mean that Germans going to the Baltic coast have been stopped by police while others are queuing in Majorca for Covid tests before returning home from their Easter holidays abroad.
Frustration at contradictory lockdown policies is growing as Angela Merkel plans to use federal powers to impose uniform rules on regional governments that have resisted tough measures. Many Germans have been infuriated by rules that allow people to fly to Spanish island resorts while those at home cannot go to the coast, to camp sites or holiday cottages.
The holiday weekend began with police checkpoints into the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern region, famous for its coastal resorts and lake district, turning away more than a thousand Germans. On Saturday alone, police turned away more than