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July EU Travel Restrictions, Covid-19 Test Requirements, Quarantine By Country

The picture across the EU (and the U.K.) in July is optimistic but becoming a little more complicated than in June. More and more countries are open, particularly to U.S. travelers, but the threat of the Delta variant looms.

This means that for the travel industry, it has once again become a race to get second vaccinations (and first) completed, before the Delta variant (B.1.167.2) becomes prevalent across the bloc–particularly as it is more transmissable and vaccine resistant than previous strains.

The European travel industry is currently in good shape:

  • the EU has expanded its White List of countries, the third-party countries that can now visit Europe, including the U.S. This list had stayed very small for much of one whole year but now encompasses Albania, Australia, China (the EU travel ban applies until China
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Shante Abdo by — July 2, 2021 in Travel Guidelines
The travel restrictions in place in every country in Europe

Many countries have travel restrictions in place in a bid to control the spread of COVID-19.

The latest big changes include:

  • The UK has added 15 new countries and territories to its quarantine-free travel list: read more.
  • The three presidents of the EU Commission have officially signed an agreement on the COVID-19 EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC).
  • The EUDCC will enter regulation on 1 July and 16 EU countries are now using the pass.
  • Malta and Finland announce they will join EUDCC gateway.
  • The EU has added the US among others to a list which recommends countries that may be able to travel to the continent.
  • The United Kingdom has delayed entering the next stage of its lockdown roadmap by four weeks due to the spread of the Delta variant.
  • Arrivals from UK placed under stricter measures by France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain amid call for
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Shante Abdo by — June 30, 2021 in Travel Guidelines
With travel restrictions barely easing, U.S.-Canada border towns stuck in economic limbo

BLAINE — At Border Mailbox and Parcel, just minutes from the U.S.-Canada border, owner Doug Hornsby all but trips over the economic fallout of the pandemic every time he comes to work.

Before COVID-19, Hornsby’s customers were primarily Canadians who used his Blaine address for their online purchases to take advantage of cheaper U.S. shipping.

But that bit of globalization ground to a halt in March 2020, when the pandemic shut the border to nonessential travelers — and turned Hornsby’s shop into a kind of package purgatory, with thousands of unretrieved purchases.

“I have stuff that’s been here 16 months,” the 71-year-old grouses as he steps around a 65-inch flat screen TV that showed up last spring and hasn’t moved since.

Nor is it clear when it will move. Canada recently announced it will start easing some border restrictions, on July 5. But other restrictions have been extended through July

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Shante Abdo by — June 26, 2021 in Costo Travel