Describing the current situation as 'unsustainable', the aviation industry has urged EU countries to replace quarantine measures with testing prior to departure (Photo: Chad Davis)

EU waters down Covid-19 traffic-light travel zones concept

EU Political

Health & Society

by Elena Sánchez Nicolás, Brussels,

EU member states on Tuesday (13 October) will adopt common standards to coordinate coronavirus travel restrictions, including a 'traffic-light' system of affected areas - in a bid to prevent a recurrence of individual and unilateral measures, as seen during the first Covid-19 wave.

Under the proposal of the German presidency, endorsed by EU ambassadors last Friday, the European Centre for Disease Preve...

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Elena is EUobserver's Managing Editor. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.

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Describing the current situation as 'unsustainable', the aviation industry has urged EU countries to replace quarantine measures with testing prior to departure (Photo: Chad Davis)