The Berlin journalist Olaf Alp has a problem: he has to go into quarantine at home after his holiday in the Canary Islands. But he now wants to prevent this by filing an urgent application. Since December 20, the Foreign Office has also classified the Canary Islands as a risk area. As a result, travelers returning from trips are sent into quarantine. The person concerned is not taking this lying down and is doing everything he can to overturn the quarantine regulation. In doing so, he is relying in particular on two cornerstones of the Basic Law: the principle of equal treatment and the principle of proportionality. In the application to the Berlin Administrative Court, he explains that the seven-day incidence in the state of Berlin is 212 cases per 100.000 inhabitants, while the incidence in the Canary Islands is 72,82 cases per 100.000 inhabitants. Against this background, people who have not left the state of Berlin have "a higher or at least equally high probability of having contracted the coronavirus." However, the people from Berlin would not be restricted in their freedom rights, although objectively speaking the risk of infection is higher, the travel portal Reisevor9 quotes the journalist as saying. Therefore, the obligation to quarantine at home for ten days would represent an objectively unjustified unequal treatment of comparable situations. The plaintiff is following a well-known line of argument here: a few weeks ago, the Higher Administrative Court in Münster rejected the quarantine requirement for those returning from risk areas, as set out in the state's Corona entry regulations. In the court's opinion, the state had not taken into account that travelers returning from countries with lower infection rates than at their place of residence are exposed to a higher risk of infection after returning home than at their vacation destination. Courts are generally careful when making their judgments.