Covid: France bans unvaccinated U.S. travelers

By Barry Neild and Sakya Vandoorne | CNN

France has go the latest European state — and the astir important tourism destination — to region the United States from its harmless question list, pursuing EU recommendations successful the aftermath of a US Covid spike.

A French government decree issued connected Thursday bumped the United States and Israel from the country’s “green” list, down to “orange,” efficaciously prohibiting nonessential question to France for unvaccinated visitors.

Under France’s rules, unvaccinated travelers from either state volition inactive beryllium allowed successful provided they person an indispensable crushed for travel, nevertheless they’ll request a antagonistic Covid-19 trial earlier question and indispensable quarantine for 7 days connected arrival.

France’s determination travel restrictions imposed connected US travelers from respective different European destinations. Earlier this week, Spain changed its introduction argumentation for arrivals from the US, requiring them to person a certificate proving treble vaccination.

Covid-battered economies

Denmark and the Netherlands person besides precocious updated their restrictions, requiring impervious of vaccination for US travelers. Sweden, meanwhile, has banned each US arrivals careless of vaccination status.

Italy past week began requiring each visitors, including those from the United States, to amusement impervious of a PCR oregon antigen Covid trial taken wrong 72 hours of travel, careless of whether they are vaccinated.

The caller measures travel a nonbinding proposal from the European Union to its subordinate states earlier this period to statesman restricting US arrivals pursuing rising Covid-19 numbers crossed the United States during July and August.

Many European question destinations reopened their borders to Americans earlier successful the summertime successful the anticipation of attracting overmuch needed tourism dollars to boost Covid-battered economies.

With Covid’s Delta variant spreading passim the US, immoderate countries, including Germany, had already begun restricting entree to Americans anterior to the EU recommendation. Others, specified arsenic Greece, importune they volition stay unfastened careless of traveler vaccination status.

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