The European Union (EU) has recommended to open its external borders to non-essential travel into the bloc if travellers have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19.<\/p>\n
The Council of the EU, representing the 27 member states, adopted a recommendation that eases the Covid-19 restrictions for non-EU travellers whose origin countries report no more than 75 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last 14 days.<\/p>\n
Before the criteria were updated yesterday, the upper limit was 25 cases, Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n
EU member states are now encouraged to waive testing or quarantine for third-country travellers who have received the last dose of a vaccine approved by the European Medicines Agency. The drugs regulator has so far greenlighted four vaccines \u2013 Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.<\/p>\n
EU countries could also lift the restriction on non-essential travel to those who have received the last recommended dose of a vaccine on the list of the World Health Organization for emergency use.<\/p>\n
An emergency brake mechanism is created, and reciprocity should be taken into account case by case, said the EU Council.<\/p>\n
The decision was made on the basis of a proposal presented by the European Commission in early May, which aims to salvage the bloc’s tourism industry as vaccination campaigns are progressing worldwide.<\/p>\n
Also, the EU Council reached a provisional agreement yesterday with the European Parliament on the introduction of a Covid-19 certificate system that can facilitate the free movement within the bloc.<\/p>\n
The commonly recognized digital certificate will be able to prove a traveller is fully vaccinated, or tests negative, or has recovered from the infection, and the holder of the certificate is thus free of travel restrictions.<\/p>\n
The system is supposed to be temporarily in place for 12 months. A vote on the proposition is expected to take place at the parliament’s plenary in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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