The European Union recommended on Monday that Americans should be banned from non-essential travel due to a rise in Covid-19 cases in the United States.
Plans for the measure, first reported by Reuters, arose amid the pandemic surge fueled by the delta variant. Notably, the U.S. officials have not lifted the U.S. entry ban on EU citizens earlier this year.
Meanwhile, those restrictions are renewed; U.S. citizens travelling to the bloc’s 27 member nations might be subject to measures such as Covid testing, quarantine upon arrival and a halt to all non-essential travel.
However, the EU recommendation is non-binding, and member states retain control over their own border restrictions related to Covid.
The EU is also removing five other nations from its nonbinding list of 23 nations exempted from travel restrictions: Israel, Kosovo, Lebanon, Montenegro and North Macedonia.
Countries reportedly retaining least restrictive status include Canada, Japan, Qatar and Ukraine, according to published reports.
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