September 09, 2021
20:15
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The EU has removed Japan and five other countries from its list of safe travel destinations for coronavirus. This means that passengers from these countries will be subjected to strict restrictions, such as tests for coronavirus or quarantine, world agencies reported.
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–Apart from Japan and Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brunei and Serbia are excluded from the list. Uruguay has been added to the list.
With these changes, the EU list now includes only 12 countries. These are Moldova, Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jordan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Singapore, South Korea and Uruguay.
The EU decision is non-binding and gives individual Member States the freedom to determine their own border policies in relation to the coronavirus pandemic. Germany, for example, added Albania, Serbia, Azerbaijan and Japan to its list of high-risk countries on Sunday, with stricter restrictions coming.
