New Covid-19 strain: EU starts to ease UK travel bans
AFP/London Filed on December 23, 2020
Eurostar staff stands in an almost deserted International Departures hall at St Pancras International station in London after all services to Europe were cancelled as a string of countries banned travellers arriving from the UK. AFP
France announces reopening cross-border travel with Britain, but a negative Covid-19 test will be required.
Europe on Wednesday began lifting travel bans on Britain put in place to contain a new fast-spreading Covid strain while WHO experts were set to meet on a response to it.
There was positive news in Australia, where Sydney eased lockdown restrictions for Christmas after the country’s largest city reported a second day of new cases in the single digits.
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EU urges end to bans over UK virus strain as travel chaos looms The new variant of the virus, which has also been detected in small numbers elsewhere, appears to spread more easily than other types but there is no evidence it is more lethal or resistant to vaccines, according to experts. A passenger wearing a protective mask checks in at the Helsinki Airport in Vantaa, Finland, on 18 May 2020. Picture: AFP.
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BRUSSELS - The European Commission on Tuesday urged EU nations to lift travel bans imposed on Britain to halt the spread of a coronavirus variant that has swept the UK and spurred global panic just as vaccines are being rolled out worldwide.