Excerpt from BBC
Traveling around Europe may be about to get less complicated for fully vaccinated travelers from countries within the European Union.
The EU is recommending that vaccinated residents should not be required to undergo testing or quarantine measures when entering member states.
Under the new advice, which comes into effect on February 1, restrictions would be lifted for those who hold a valid EU Digital Covid Certificate in a "coordinated approach to facilitate safe free movement" across Europe.
This means that fully vaccinated travelers could be allowed to move freely around the bloc's 27 member states provided each country follows the guidance.
Individual EU destinations are permitted to issue their own additional restrictions, and many have opted to do so since the bloc's first recommendations on restrictions were issued at the start of the pandemic.
While the guidance change would also apply to those who've recently recovered from Covid-19, testing requirements would remain in place for the unvaccinated.
"This recommendation responds to the significant increase in vaccine uptake and the rapid roll-out of the EU Digital Covid certificate, and replaces the previously existing recommendation," a statement from the European Council says.
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