4 hours agoGermany and France want common rules against COVID option Delta-19
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(5 years ago)German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and France's president, Emmanuel Macron, called on other European Union leaders to impose stricter rules for travelers from countries outside the EU such as Britain to fight the Delta version of the Coronavirus. Merkel, arriving in Brussels for an EU summit, [...]
Merkel, arriving in Brussels for an EU summit, said she would lobby for a more co-ordinated approach, especially to tourists from regions where the variants of the coronavirus are widespread.
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Macron asked EU countries to be extremely vigilant about the variant, which was first discovered in India.
This option seems to be far more infectious and affecting people who are not entirely vaccinated.
Macron said the EU must make co-ordinated decisions on opening borders for people from other countries.
Warnings were made until British Prime Minister Boris Johnson implied that the United Kingdom is close to allowing unlimited travel abroad for people fully vaccinated.
EU governments have agreed to a 13-nation white “list, for whom residents have to remove travel restrictions.
Australia and the United States belong to this list, but Britain is missing, to which various policies apply.
France and Germany demand that visitors from Britain enter quarantine, while Portugal and Spain, which depend on British tourists, do not demand that.
In the Lisbon region, over half of the new Corleone cases are of the Delta version. / REL
