It’s official: the European Council issued a recommendation to all its 27 members on Monday to reinstate Covid travel restrictions for unvaccinated travelers from the United States.
On again, off again. Now it’s official: On Monday, the European Council issued a recommendation to all its 27 member states to reinstate Covid travel restrictions for travelers from the United States that are unvaccinated against the coronavirus. The U.S. is among others on the list: Israel, Kosovo, Lebanon, Montenegro and the Republic of North Macedonia have also been removed from the list of safe countries whose residents can travel without quarantine and testing due to local surges in coronavirus infections and hospitalizations in recent weeks. “The European Council has removed five countries and one entity/territorial authority from the list of countries for which travel restrictions should be lifted,” the Council’s statement announces. “Following a review under the recommendation on the gradual lifting of the temporary restrictions on non-essential travel into the E.U., the Council updated the list of countries, special administrative regions and other entities and territorial authorities for which travel restrictions should be lifted.” What that means, according to the European Council press release, is that “non-essential travel to the E.U. from countries or entities not listed (as ‘safe’ countries) is subject to temporary travel restriction.
