The European Union plans to advocate its member states to reintroduce restrictions on vacationers from the USA as a consequence of rising coronavirus an infection charges within the nation, EU diplomats mentioned on Monday.
A choice to take away the US from a protected listing of non-essential journey international locations would reverse the recommendation of June when the 27-nation bloc really helpful lifting restrictions on US vacationers earlier than the summer time tourism season.
In response to EU diplomats, the rules may come this week. They spoke on situation of anonymity because the evaluation course of was nonetheless ongoing.
Nonetheless, each resolution could be non-binding. The EU doesn’t have a single COVID-19 tourism coverage and nationwide governments have the ability to determine whether or not to maintain their borders open to US vacationers.
The European Council updates the listing based mostly on standards associated to coronavirus an infection charges. It’s checked each two weeks.
The edge for inclusion on the EU listing is not more than 75 new COVID-19 instances per 100,000 inhabitants within the final 14 days. Coronavirus instances have risen in the USA in current weeks, at greater than 1,100 per day, the best since mid-March.
Final week, new instances a day averaged over 152,000, which put the clock again to late January, and the variety of folks hospitalized with the coronavirus was round 85,000, a quantity that has not been seen since early February.
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