Only Italy and Spain have asked for something similar among the bloc’s 27 countries as health officials from member countries failed last week to agree on a common strategy
France appealed to the rest of the EU to test Chinese travelers for COVID following the relevant decision by the Macron government amid a new outbreak of the disease in China.
Only Italy and Spain have requested something similar among the bloc’s 27 countries as health officials from member countries failed last week to agree on a common strategy.
More talks on the issue are expected this week.
From today, France requires travelers from China to present a negative covid test taken less than 48 hours before their departure, and will also carry out random checks on arrivals.
“France will push for this methodology to be implemented across the EU,” the health minister said Francois Bron as he and transport minister Clément Bonn inspected the new procedures at Paris Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Asked about the fact that a Chinese traveler with Covid can currently fly to another EU country and then travel unchecked to France, Bohn said: “That’s why we have to coordinate (across of the EU), to be more effective”.
Having kept its borders closed for three years by imposing a strict lockdown regime and relentless controls, Beijing suddenly changed policy by deciding on December 7 to lift measures to cope with the virus, causing infections to soar suddenly in recent weeks.
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