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U.S. Travel Restrictions on EU Citizens Will Remain for Now: Secretary of State

  • John Irish and Humeyra Pamuk, Reuters
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    The smattering of virus surges around Europe and the slower vaccine rollout likely gives the U.S. pause to welcome EU travelers.
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    President Joe Biden’s administration is working on the lifting of COVID-19 travel restrictions imposed on EU citizens but it is premature to put a date on any such move, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.

    “We are anxious to be able to restore travel as fully and quickly as possible. I can’t put a date on it, we have to be guided by the science, by medical expertise,” Blinken told a news conference in Paris alongside his French counterpart.

    (Reporting by John Irish and Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Richard Lough and Alison Williams)

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    Photo Credit: Secretary Anthony J. Blinken holds a virtual press briefing on March 29, 2021. In late June Blinken said that the U.S. was not ready to lift travel restrictions on Europeans. Freddie Everett / U.S. State Department
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