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Pandemic restrictions mean two-thirds of borders are fully or partly closed – dpa international


DUBLIN — Pandemic restrictions have completely or partly closed two-thirds of destinations worldwide to international tourism, according to the World Tourism Organization (UNTWO), a United Nations agency.
Almost a year since  the World Health Organization labelled the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, 69 out of 217 destinations remain “completely closed,” the UNTWO said on Monday in its latest Travel Restrictions Report.
Around the same number of destinations are “partially closed,” the UNWTO calculated.
Thirty-eight of the 69 completely-closed destinations have been that way for at least 40 weeks, the UNWTO said, noting “regional differences” in how the border controls are applied.
Thirty Asia-Pacific destinations are completely closed, twice as many as in Europe, where the pandemic hit hard in second and third waves over the winter months. Some European countries reimposed domestic travel restrictions and advisories telling people to stay at home, but in general did not impose border controls to match those seen in Asia.

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