EU Proposes More Travel Restrictions to Stop Virus Variants

EU Proposes More Travel Restrictions to Stop Virus Variants
Officers of the German Federal Police check passengers arriving by plane from Prague at the Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt, Germany, on Jan. 24, 2021. Boris Roessler/dpa via AP
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BRUSSELS—The European Union’s executive body proposed Monday that the bloc’s 27 nations impose more travel restrictions to counter the worrying spread of new coronavirus variants but make sure to keep goods and workers moving across EU borders.

Amid concerns related to the production and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines, the European Commission urged EU nations to reinforce testing and quarantine measures for travelers as virus mutations that are more transmissible threaten to overwhelm European hospitals with new cases.