O B S: Travel restrictions and vaccine tests no longer needed

O The BSH has published a statement from the latest meeting of the Emergency Committee this week -- its 10th since the beginning of the pandemic -- discussing the efficiency of general travel bans and whether they should be canceled.

The stops of travel “are not effective in printing international spread (as indicated by Omitron's experience)”, it says. As a result, the new advice is to reduce or facilitate international traffic bans, as they do not provide added value and continue to contribute to the economic and social stress of some countries.

Instead of travel bans, there must be <x0 travel measures” to control the spread of the virus. The appearance of your vaccination status or testimony to a negative test at the border has been the norm for the past months as we try to revive our travel industry, writes scan.

But now O The BSH is claiming that this request may no longer be the only “way towards international travel. It recommends a risk-based “x3> instead that it would include “the removal or modification of measures, such as testing and/or quarantine requests, when appropriate”.