No fewer than 15 European countries, in addition to the UK, France, Belgium and Spain, are quarantined through their Fellow Europeans, the EU’s new Covid soft traffic system.
As Covid spreads across Europe, several countries have begun reintroducing border bans and closures for their neighbors.
To counter this, the EU needs to expand a colour-coded map of Europe on quarantine criteria and non-unusual testing.
Obviously, the map will show which countries are subject to restrictions and where.
“. . . we need a clear “green, orange, red” formula and a kaleidoscope of individual measures,” says EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs Ylva Johansson.
With the Commission’s proposed threshold of 50 or more cases of coronavirus consisting of another 100,000 people over a 14-day period consistent with the period, many high-risk countries are quarantined again upon arrival.
Travellers from Red List countries with more than this point of infection and a positive control rate of more than 3% are isolated, as are those where new instances exceed 150 in two weeks.
According to the latest knowledge from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), it is countries that are at risk of being excluded through other EU/Schengen members:
COUNTRY: 14-day Covid-19 case consisting of 100,000 to 16 September
“The British face quarantine when they arrive in ALL EU countries, while the bloc adopts a ‘standard’ threshold to impose self-deissisting,” the Daily Mail warns.
Since the bloc uses the same criteria to limit travel, it states that “a recent increase in cases means that the UK has lately an infection rate of 51. 1 consisting of 100,000 and a positive control rate of 6%, either above the EU threshold.
Not all countries have started to put the formula into force and some cannot. France, Germany and Spain to begin with favor the approach.
Finland already applies such regulations to its northern neighbors as it relaxes quarantine thresholds.
As of Saturday, any traveler from a country with 25 new instances / 100,000 will have to be quarantined and tested. In October, it plans to expand the measurement of traffic lighting devices even for non-European high-risk devices such as the United States.
The plan is to perform many more tests for high-risk travelers.
Ireland announced new quarantine regulations on Tuesday, adopting this approach.
As a component of its 6-month ‘Living with Covid-19’ plan, Ireland is removing its ‘green list’ and is instead applying EU thresholds.
“Ireland and Finland will be the first countries to apply restrictions, which will necessarily prevent the British from travelling to those countries,” the Sun reports.
“As a component of the EU plan, the government will abandon the 14-day quarantine era for non-green countries and instead adopt a test formula at airports and ports for incoming passengers,” the Irish Times confirms.
Ireland and Northern Ireland may still be among those quarantined in Europe.
“With 6% positive evidence, the UK infection rate would lead to the quarantine of the new colour-code system proposed by the EU,” says The Telegraph.
And the same can be said of all previously indexed countries.
To receive more information on the criteria for the Green and Orange List countries, click here. These Europeans will have no restrictions.
Until all EU governments have provided the mandatory knowledge to the ECDC, the map that allows travelers to navigate Europe’s new color-coded Covid spaces will not be produced.
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