While Covid-19 rates are soaring in the EU, countries are more commonly united in deciding that they limit travel, but differ in the app.
The outlook is adjusted weekly in terms of access to EU countries and also how governments move other people within.
This consultant, country by country, explains who is now allowed to enter the EU country and what they can do once there; some countries are blocked.
The recommendation on the smooth traffic formula of the European Centre for Disease Control (explained below) is that lately only travellers arriving from Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, New Zealand, Rwanda, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia, Uruguay and China can enter the EU Bloc.
The United States, like every other country on this list, remains banned at the EU level.
It is worth noting, however, that this is not legally binding and that European countries can do so on their own. Croatia, for example, allows U. S. climbers to stop in the country as long as they meet detection needs and have a negative Covid-19 test. .
On 13 October, the EU followed joint travel restrictions to make it less difficult to perceive and regulate travel between the Member States of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Crucially for the EU, these restrictions affect the right of Europeans to move freely in the 27 member countries, a first step backwards for EU regulation, which likes to protect free movement within the Schengen domain (countries that have registered for other people’s loose movements in Europe).
The concept is that there is a “common map” among European countries that would give a review of the pandemic. This map takes into account 3 factors:
Knowledge is compiled and analysed on behalf of all member countries through the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC).
The non-unusual map works on the basis of traffic lights, where regions will be colored in ‘green’, ‘orange’, ‘red’ and ‘grey’ (if available data is insufficient):
This traffic-friendly formula is not applicable by law and all Member States must decide whether to put it into force.
Fundamentally, while many countries use the same figures to determine whether and how they deserve to be restricted, the procedure has several from one country to another, either in terms of restricting access and their citizens, even between the UK, for example, each country. has reacted differently:
Cases are on the rise, as in Europe, however, although citizens were blocked in March and April, the government strongly said it would not block the country.
Albania has been open lately to all EU residents. Passengers arriving at airports go through “frame temperature measurements” and will be examined by a doctor whose frame temperature is greater than 37. 5 degrees Celsius.
Lately, restrictions have been allowed on the entry of a maximum number of EU countries, with the exception of parts of the Czech Republic, Croatia, France, Portugal, Spain and Bulgaria, where quarantine or a negative Covid-19 test, carried out in the last 72 hours, is required.
The Austrian government has recently adopted new internal measures in the country, as reported through The Local, where masks are mandatory for all indoor and outdoor occasions as of Friday, October 23, and personal meetings have a voluntary limit of 6 people.
Belgium is blocked recently, where restaurants and bars are closed and other people paint from home when possible. As reported via Politico, other people can only socialize with someone outside of their home (and it will have to be the same person Four other people are allowed in someone’s house, if the rules of social distancing are respected, and the organization will have to remain the same throughout the confinement.
For visitors entering the country, Belgium uses the ECDC’s mild traffic formula and asks them to arrive from the red zones after November 15 to go through negative control upon arrival or to quarantine it for 14 days. lately a red zone.
All passengers arriving in Belgium by air or sea must complete a “Public Health Passenger Location Form” and deliver it to the border authorities.
Non-essential to and from outside the EU and Schengen countries is still prohibited.
Borders have been open to EU and Schengen citizens since 16 July, provided readers go through a negative Sars-CoV-2 check dating back less than 2 days. There is a ban on all other foreign citizens, with a few exceptions.
Internally, masking and social estating are mandatory on public transport, public and outdoor spaces in maximum areas of the country.
The list of countries that can reach Bulgaria without restrictions is up to date; includes the list of EU-approved countries and EU member states.
Arrivals from Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Northern Macedonia, Albania, Kuwait, Moldova, Israel and any other third country must pass a negative Covid-19 check and indicate a declaration of fitness. visitors are not on the list of 46 legal countries.
The Guardian reported that Bulgaria reported 1,024 new infections on Tuesday, since the first reported cases in March (it has a population of 7 million and has recorded 1,008 deaths).
In response, masks are now mandatory in all spaces, which Health Minister Kostadin Angelov hoped would slow the spread of the virus by about 30% and ease tension in hospitals.
Croatian borders are open to more EU citizens and also arrive with visitors from the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Andorra, San Marino, Monaco and the Holy See.
Croatia also allows access from other countries from other countries, adding the United States, if travelers meet the needs and have a valid Covid-19 negative control result, in a different way, they will have to be quarantined. to deliver him to the border.
Like other EU countries, Croatia is experiencing an increase in infection rates and has imposed mandatory masking and restriction of public meetings. The prime minister resists closure.
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou announced on 22 October new fitness measures to curb the “alarming” increase in tariffs across the country. It is forbidden to travel between 23:00 hours, and five a. m. for others who want to move to work, or in the event of a medical/pharmaceutical emergency. Masks should be used in all outdoor spaces. The new fitness decree lately runs until November 9.
At borders, Cyprus has 3 categories in a country’s epidemiological scenario and updates the list to announce who can enter and how.
Lately there are 7 countries on List A, the epidemiologically sound maximum, where there are no restrictions: Australia, Finland, Germany, Korea, the Republic of Latvia, New Zealand and Thailand.
Passengers on List B of these countries must test negative for the virus no later than 72 hours prior to arrival and include: Canada, China, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Holy See (Vatican City State), Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Rwanda, San Marino, Serbia, Sweden, United Kingdom and Uruguay.
All countries are listed C, where access is prohibited (except in some circumstances).
Each passenger must complete a Cyprus health pass upon arrival.
The Palestinian Authority reported that the government of the Czech Republic had again imposed the same serious restrictions it imposed on citizens in the spring, the prime minister said this would never happen. Prime Minister Andrej Babis apologized according to CNN, telling the Czech people: sorry for the new restrictions. “The New York Times reported that doctors and nurses are starting to have health problems at an alarming rate.
Through its external borders, the country has divided EU Member States into a high- and low-risk one, where only Spanish visitors enter lately (unless they have a negative result in the Covid-19 control).
Like other member countries, visitors from the 15 un agreed member states are allowed, but other third-party nationals are not allowed.
There is a useful list in English entitled “Is My country/region open or banned?”, where “high risk” countries come lately with France, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Poland, Vatican City, Iceland and San Marino. The input can take position with a negative control of Covid-19 performed within 72 hours.
Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Uruguay are prohibited.
As far as its citizens are concerned, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is expected to introduce new measures in the coming days, adding the extension of the existing mask mandate and, in all likelihood, the closure of bars and restaurants before 10pm Frederiksen said the Danes should hope to cancel the Christmas holidays.
EU citizens, as well as Schengen nationals, as well as those from the United Kingdom, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican can do so without symptoms.
Arrivals from other non-indexed countries must be quarantined for 14 days.
From 23 November, passengers arriving from all EU, Schengen and UK countries (even with the best fares) will be allowed to arrive, but they must have evidence of a negative Covid-19 test, which has been passed within 72 hours of arrival. They will then have to be quarantined for 72 hours up to a point in the negative test, which will give them the freedom to travel to Finland without restrictions.
As of 12 October, arrivals from Cyprus, Latvia and Liechtenstein can enter without quarantine and until 23 November, arrivals will be allowed without self-aisalation for 14 days if they arrive from a country with fewer than 25 cases, equivalent to 100,000 people. in the last fortnight.
Lately, Finland has internal restrictions on the opening hours of some companies and is encouraged to paint houses at all times. Please note that restaurants and bars are subject to reduced hours until 31 October.
France imposed curfews in nine metropolitan spaces on 17 October between nine o’clock at night and six in the morning, where anyone outside their home would want a special form or certificate explaining the reason (childcare and pictures are an appropriate explanation).
The first curfew affected another 22 million people, but with rates rising (France on Thursday reported its highest rate ever recorded with 41,600 new cases), the curfew has been extended to other regions to reach 46 million of the French 67 million as of Saturday, October 24.
France under pressure that it expects some of its hospital beds to be complete until the end of October, as reported in Les Echos, and that patients will be transferred back to cities in other regions while hospitals are saturated (as they were on the first wave).
France has become the country of Western Europe at the time of overcoming one million cases of COVID-19 and the director of the paris hospitals, Martin Hirsch, called on Friday for new restrictions or the time when the dangers “are worse than the first”.
France has recently been open to all EU Member States, as well as the United Kingdom and visitors from Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, New Zealand, Rwanda, Serbia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia, the United Kingdom and Uruguay: the need for quarantine.
All who arrive must now present a complete certificate that de jure has no symptoms of Covid-19 and that the reasons for the trip. Anyone with symptoms upon arrival self-isolates immediately.
Germany reported 11,287 new cases of the virus on Thursday; the first time he crossed the 10,000 mark, he brought new measures, extending the needs of mask where the rate of occurrence is higher than 35 cases consisting of 100,000 inhabitants and restricting the opening of bars and restaurants, especially in primary cities such as Berlin, Cologne. Frankfurt.
Germany has a limited list of countries and regions and has recently climbed France, Malta, the Netherlands and Slovakia. From 24 October, the total of the United Kingdom and Switzerland will be added to this list.
As reported through Euronews, he showed up to pay for Covid-19 tests in the first 3 days of arrival, for others arriving from high-risk countries.
In Greece, citizens of the Athens region and other parts of the country with the highest contagion rates were subjected to 12:30 p. m. Curfew at five in the morning. AP reported that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a televised speech: “With a little less fun, for a short time, we will be healthier for a long time. “
Negative Covid-19 testing is required for travelers from Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, the United Arab Emirates, Malta, Belgium, Spain, Russia, Albania and Northern Macedonia, as well as for others crossing Greece’s land borders.
Flights to and from Turkey have been suspended and fitness checks are being carried out at airports. All arrivals must complete a passenger location form.
France 24 reported that more Hungarians died in October than in the last four months and Prime Minister Viktor Orban faces tensions to block the country and take stricter measures. On 19 October, Hungary had the third highest mortality rate of millions of covid 19s in the bloc, Czech Republic and Romania. The Christmas market on Budapest’s Vursmarty Square has been cancelled.
The country opened its borders without restriction to citizens of the European Union, the European Economic Area (excluding the United Kingdom) and Switzerland on 21 June. Any other arrival must be quarantined for a period of 14 days or until it produces two negative Covids. -19 tests two days apart.
While borders are open to visitors from the EU and the UK, arrivals will have to decide to enter within 40 or two Covid-19 tests, five days apart, resulting in a negative result.
All foreign nationals who are unable to leave the country must register with the government to be allowed to stay legally.
Currently, anyone from anywhere should be quarantined, adding Irish residents, for 14 days; there are no more countries on the list.
AP announced that Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin closed all non-essential shops, that restaurants can only offer takeaways, and that others deserve no more than five kilometres from the house for the next six weeks. Schools will remain open. The purpose is to save Christmas.
Italy, the first country in Europe to impose a national blockade in March. Italy has had more infections than before, but it doesn’t need to shut down the economy.
Instead, it imposes a curfew at five o’clock in the morning in the Italian region of Lazio, which includes Rome, from Friday 23 October and for 30 days. The southern region of Campania, which includes Naples, ordered citizens to stay home on Thursday from 11 p. m. shortly before dawn the next day. A similar curfew in Lombardy, where infections are spreading in Milan, will begin on Thursday night.
All passengers arriving in Italy will have to complete a passenger form and maximum arrivals from EU Member States do not want to quarantine; However, arrivals from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Spain and the United Kingdom must mark negative swabs within 72 hours of arrival or make one at an Italian airport or fitness clinic.
Any other country is limited to an explanation of why and will have to go through a mandatory quarantine era of 14 days.
Latvia updates its access list weekly and lately only Estonia, Finland, Norway and Cyprus do not require quarantine. All other EU countries, as well as the UK, will have to enter a ten-day quarantine. From October 12, all arrivals You must complete an electronic form 48 hours before arriving in the country.
Latvia has been reduced to amenities for its population and no more than 4 non-resident visitors can be at the same table.
Although the country as a total is open to visitors from the EU, EEA, Switzerland and the UK, this is only true if the number of cases has exceeded 16, which coincides with 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 calendar days. Mandatory 14-day quarantine consisting of the period for its nationals or visitors arriving from the 50 countries affected by the Covid-19, adding Sweden, Russia, Belarus, Portugal and the United States.
For citizens or out of quarantine, the country has strengthened masking measures, limited public meetings and also followed the ECDC’s smooth traffic formula for its internal regions.
Luxembourg has not limited its border to other European visitors, travel from outside Europe is prohibited. It also allows visitors from advised COUNTRIES across the EU.
At the end of September, the ECDC reported that Malta had the mortality rate of any EU country, 3. 6 deaths, equivalent to 100,000 inhabitants over a 14-day period compatible with the period.
The countries on Malta’s ‘green list’ that have recently been unrestricted are: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (except passengers arriving from Paris and Marseille), Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rwanda, San Marino , Slovakia Slovenia, South Korea, Sweden, Spain (except Barcelona, Girona and Madrid), Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay and Vatican City.
Other countries are on an “orange list” where visitors will need to provide negative proof of Covid-19 within 72 hours of boarding for Malta. The countries on the orange list are the Czech Republic, France (arrivals from Paris and Marseille), Romania, Spain (passengers from Barcelona, Girona and Madrid) and Tunisia.
Montenegro is allowed to enter from the countries of a ‘green list’, which are EU countries and Andorra, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, Turkey, United Kingdom and Ukraine.
Other “yellow list” countries such as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Northern Macedonia and Serbia will need to provide a negative Covid-19 check within the last 72 hours.
There are local curfews and there are masks in many places.
The Netherlands has recently been subjected to a partial blockade involving a four-week closure order for bars and restaurants before 10pm The measures come with a mask in the shops, avoiding anything that is not essential and, as the BBC reports, social gatherings in the internal houses deserve not to exceed 3 people.
You do not want to quarantine if you travel from the European safety list, namely Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, New Zealand, Rwanda, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia, Uruguay or China.
However, anyone arriving from up to EU countries will need to be quarantined for 10 days upon arrival, even if they have no symptoms and a negative verification result. The list includes: Andorra, Austria (the Tyrol regions, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Lower Austria, Upper Austria and Vienna, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark (Copenhagen, Faaborg-Midtfyn, Slagelse, Arhus, Solrod, Koge and Greve), France, Greece (all Greek islands excluded from the mainland), Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania (city of Siaulia), Array Portugal (Lisbon metropolitan area and city of Porto Array) Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland (cantons of Geneva, Freiburg and Vaud) and united Kingdom
There is an updated map of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health showing which countries do not want quarantine on arrival, which lately includes parts of Finland (seven hospital districts and the islands of the island), Sweden (Kalmar) and Greenland. As of 17 October, the maximum of other arrivals from EU countries have to be self-ingested for 10 days.
On 22 October, Norway recorded its highest daily case record, in line with peaks in all other EU countries. Prime Minister Erna Solberg will introduce new measures in November, saying, “If we now take steps to lessen the infection, there is a greater chance that the prolonged circle of relatives will come in combination and celebrate Christmas. “
As reported through the AP, Poland broke a record on Thursday by reporting 12,100 new cases and recording nearly 170 new deaths. Poland has turned its largest stadium into an emergency hospital.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is expected to introduce stricter restrictions, such as mandatory use of masks in all open public spaces, limits on the number of consumers on and on public transport, and gyms and swimming pools may simply be closed.
Borders are open to quarantine conditions for EU, EFTA and UK citizens.
Portugal is expected to make it mandatory to wear masks outside the country and prohibits others from traveling through the counties between October 31 and November 2, Halloween and All Saints Weekend. guilty of the new spikes in infection.
Arrivals in the UK, EU and Schengen domain can travel, as can EU-mandated countries. All will be examined at the airport and monitored and some others may be asked to perform a Covid-19 check and isolate the same until they get the results.
Two weeks after schools reopened, Romania has noticed an immediate increase in infection rates, alarming World Health Organization workers.
People from EU and UK countries, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein can stop in Romania, but they will have to be quarantined for 14 days if the rate of occurrence in their home country is higher than Romania’s.
The Serbian government has banned public meetings involving more than 30 people, or outdoors, and masks are mandatory. Cafes, clubs and restaurants can run until 11 p. m.
Serbia’s borders are open, but self-assessment is required for all arrivals (including residents) and referrals to clinics can be made to look for negative Covid-19.
All foreigners entering Serbia from Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania and Northern Macedonia must present a negative Covid-19 test, adding the Americans.
From 24 October, Slovakia is subject to a partial curfew until 1 November, when services have been closed and citizens have limitations on travel.
Externally, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, San Marino, Slovenia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom and Vatican City are among the “low-risk countries and territories”.
Only four countries are lately on the “green list” of Slovenia – Australia, New Zealand, Serbia and Uruguay – and are subject to restrictions.
The Red List countries, recently adding Belgium, the Czech Republic, Iceland and Spain, will have to quarantine and have a negative Covid-19 test.
Only parts of other European countries are on the list, adding Austria, Ireland, United Kingdom, Estonia, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Romania and Switzerland.
Spain has become the first country in Western Europe to attack more than one million people who showed infections (1,005,295) this week by building a state of emergency in Madrid, restricting population movements, banning social gatherings between 6 a. m. and for others who do not live together. and final bars and restaurants in Array
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the number of others in Spain who have the virus is probably more than 3 million, 3 times the official figure, Bloomberg reported.
In Catalonia, the region surrounding Barcelona, bars and restaurants have closed. And many regions are closing completely: the northern region of Navarra has ordered the closure of all bars and restaurants, for example, and businesses can only open until nine o’clock at night.
Travellers arriving in Spain from EU Member States, Schengen countries and the UK have to isolate themselves and are open to the 15 states not approved by the EU.
Sweden followed another line at the beginning of the pandemic by keeping everything open, rather than imposing a blockade. Time recently reported that an increase in infection rates in Covid-19 forced the Swedish government to reconsider its technique and in all likelihood to establish local locks or close business sometimes.
Sweden has lately banned anything that is not essential outdoors in the EU/EEA area.
Since 19 October, Switzerland has extended its measures to its citizens in an attempt to curb the dizzying increase in Covid-19 rates, adding mandatory mask clothing in public and paintings at home.
Switzerland updates its list of countries and, as Euronews reports, parts of Germany (including newly added Berlin and Hamburg), France, Italy and Austria are also on the red list. Croatia, Denmark, Spain and Ireland. Array Netherlands and United Kingdom, among others.
Zurich, Geneva and Basel are the airports open to foreign visitors.
To better understand internal restrictions, England has brought a three-tier system: most of the country is at point one (average), but at point two (high), adding that in London, other people have to socialize only in their home bubbles.
In point 3 (now Greater Manchester, Liverpool and Lancashire), the bars are closed unless “hearty meals” are served, as Sky News reports, social mixing is prohibited indoors and the “rule of six” applies outdoors.
Wales has introduced a two-week ‘firewall’ to match school holidays to control and stop infections (until November 9) where everyone has to stay at home, all non-commercial businesses are closed and it is forbidden to mingle with other families.
Scotland has presented a five-tier plan, as reported in The Guardian, which will take effect on 2 November. The highest point for the affected spaces is a complete blockade, which Europe’s high decreed in March.
England has brought a formula of corridors in which it updates counties that deserve not to be quarantined on arrival every Friday; Lately, this list includes Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Gibraltar, Germany, Greece (except Mykonos), Greenland, Ireland and Latvia. Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden.
Anyone arriving from a country that is not on this list will have to isolate themselves for 14 days; this list lately includes France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium.
All arrivals must have a full location form and Wales and Scotland have followed similar regulations to enter.