Germany will ban travel from Czech border regions as well as Austria's Tyrol over a troubling surge in infections of more contagious coronavirus variants, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Thursday. "The states of Bavaria and Saxony today asked the government to class Tyrol and the border regions of the Czech Republic as virus mutation areas, and to implement border controls," Seehofer told the Sueddeutsche newspaper. "That has been agreed with the (German) chancellor and the vice-chancellor," he said, adding that the new curbs will begin on Sunday. hmn/dlc/kjl