If you are vaccinated, you may travel to the European Union countries. The EU will open borders to non-EU nations, adding them to the travel “white list”, provided travellers are fully vaccinated.
EU Ambassadors gave their nod to a proposal by the European Commission to make it easier for non-EU countries to join the list.
A new list of safe countries will be announced once the new criteria to enter the EU is finalised by the European Council, which is expected to happen this week.
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The current list has only seven destinations – Australia, Israel, New Zealand, Rwanda, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand, plus China, if it agrees to reciprocate.
The ECDC will give advice on the updated country list, which The National understands could be published early next week.
Meanwhile, visitors from countries not on the list will still be able to travel to Europe if they have been fully immunized with an EU-approved product.
The vaccines approved by the bloc’s regulators are those by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.
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The European Medicines Agency has yet to give a verdict on Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm vaccines, which are in use in Hungary.
Under plans for a digital health certificate, individual countries will be allowed to admit visitors immunized with vaccines not approved by the EU.
The bloc’s 27 EU governments will have the final word on whether to stop testing or quarantine. (AW)
