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Covid-19 pandemic: European Union to ease travel curbs for foreign tourists

The United States would not, although vaccinated Americans would be welcome in Europe.

Expats, travel, tourism, air travel
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The current main criterion is that there should be no more than 25 new Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in the previous 14 days.

Reuters
European Union countries agreed on Wednesday to ease Covid-19 travel restrictions on non-EU visitors ahead of the summer tourist season, two EU sources said.
 
Ambassadors from the 27 EU countries approved a European Commission proposal from May 3 to loosen the criteria to determine "safe" countries and to let in fully vaccinated tourists from elsewhere.
 
They are expected to set a new list this week or early next week. Based on data from the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Britain and a number of other countries would meet the new criteria.
 
The United States would

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