The English Premier League Champions, Liverpool have been banned from entering Germany for its UEFA Champions League clash against RB Leipzig due to the COVID-19 restrictions in the European countries. 
The first leg of the UCL game was scheduled to hold in Germany at the home of the German side the Red Bull Arena in Leipzig, February 16, but the last-16 tie has now been moved to Budapest in the bid to adhere to the travel laws of banning international travel from countries deemed as high risk due to the newest mutations of the deadly COVID-19 virus.
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Airline travel into Germany from England is prohibited until at least February ending, Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior {BMI} announced that the new restrictions would “initially not allow any exceptions for professional athletes”.
On Thursday, February 4, the BMI confirmed that a Champions League match would not be grounds for a special permit.
“The Federal Police informed the association that the described constellation does not fall under the exceptional circumstances of the Corona Protection Ordinance,” the BMI told the Sports Information Service (SID).
UEFA has now given RB Leipzig until February 8 to organise an alternative plan so the match will go ahead. The game could be played at a neutral venue in a country with less strict coronavirus restrictions, and the location believed to have chosen at the moment is the capital of Hungary, Budapest
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