![]() ![]() ![]() Germany, a country that has been particularly cautious in the management of the Covid-19 epidemic, reported an incidence of 79,400 new cases, its worst until now, prompting top health officials to raise the prospect of a national lockdown. Previously, the government closed nightclubs, and ordered bars and restaurants to shut at 11pm for three weeks. Indoor events will only be allowed with a maximum of 200 people. Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced that kindergartens and primary schools will close for the holiday season a week early, and children must now wear masks from the age of 6. “Still, travel to one of these three territories is not as strongly discouraged as travel to dark-red-listed areas, provided that travellers meet the entry requirements of their destination country,”writes SchengenVisa.īelgium which reported a weekly average of 17,862 new daily cases this week, a rise of 6% over the previous week, saw thousands of people in Brussels protesting against tightened COVID-19 new restrictions imposed by the government, amid the latest surge in cases. Spain, Portugal and France, which have been the safest destinations until now, have also reported increased Covid-19 cases. The European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) has also suggested that everyone, especially unvaccinated and those not fully recovered from infection, refrain from taking any non-essential trips given that most EU members – Austria, Belgium, Czechia, half of Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Ireland, Iceland, Poland, the Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Greece, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Slovenia and Slovakia – are currently on the ‘dark red list’ due to their high incidence rates, according to SchengenVisa. WHO has strongly advised that people refrain from traveling during this time and that those who must take a trip be cautious and carry the necessary documents with them at all times. The European Commission had proposed just last week that all persons who hold an authorized vaccination certificate should be permitted to travel to the bloc and that the member states should coordinate travel rules based on vaccination status.īut with the situation worsening, such a recommendation is contingent on the health conditions of each country, and what seems to rule now is confusion as governments act on their own and restrictions vary from one day to the next and from country to country. AFP via Getty Images Is travel coordination possible? ![]() Britain requires all arriving passengers to isolate until they can show a negative PCR test against Covid-19. ![]() “In central and eastern Europe in particular, but also Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands, case numbers are rocketing.”Īccording to figures from OurWorldInData, the EU’s average has quadrupled in recent weeks, from just over 110 daily new cases per million people on October 1 to 446 last Thursday.Ī woman travels down an escalator to the platform at Green Park Underground station in London. “The situation in some EU member states, particularly those with low vaccination rates, is indeed dramatic,” reports The Guardian. MORE FROM FORBES The 25 Top World Destinations To Visit In 2022 According To National Geographic By Cecilia Rodriguez Cases of Omicron infection have been detected in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. One of the big alerts came from the Netherlands, where 61 people arriving on two flights from South Africa last Friday tested positive for coronavirus. Bans are restricting travel from South Africa and other African nations including Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Angola in an effort to slow the spread as passengers found themselves stranded without a warning.ĭespite the bans, the new variant has already been found in at least a dozen countries. ![]()
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