EU: "Mutual recognition of rapid tests will help limit isolation measures"
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Antigenic test carried out in a university of Madrid in Spain, on January 20, 2021. REUTERS - SERGIO PEREZ
By: Charlotte Derouin
7 min
Amid growing concern about the coronavirus crisis, in particular the more contagious variants of the virus, the European Commission proposed to Heads of State and Government, during a European Council organized by videoconference on Thursday, to identify as "dark red" the most important epidemic foci, from which all non-essential travel should be discouraged.
Travelers from these regions will be required to undergo screening tests before departure and quarantine upon arrival.
To talk about it, Mathilde Ciulla, coordinator in the Paris office of the European Council on International Relations (ECFR).
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