After nearly two months, the European Union Council has finally reviewed and up to date its recommendation on the gradual lifting of the temporary restrictions on non-essential travel into the EU, removing Uruguay from the record of third-countries for which travel restrictions must be lifted.
The replacement has been introduced in a press release issued by the Council, in accordance with which, starting from December 16, the EU Member States and the four Schengen Associated countries are suggested to not allow residents of Uruguay enter the block for non-essential functions.
Thus, with the new replacement, the following international locations remain within the record of EU’s epidemiologically safe third-countries, to the residents of which, the Member States are really useful to reopen the borders:
- Australia
- Japan
- New Zealand
- Rwanda
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Thailand
- China, subject to the affirmation of reciprocity
“Travel restrictions also need to be steadily lifted for the special administrative regions of China Hong Kong and Macao, subject to the affirmation of reciprocity,” the Council points out.
It also notes that the residents of Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, and the Vatican must be thought-about as EU residents for the purpose of this suggestion.
The last time the Council published an update to its list of epidemiologically safe third-countries, the residents of that are permitted to enter the European Union, even for non-essential functions as leisure and tourism took place on October 22.
Via the update, the Council eliminated Canada, Georgia, and Tunisia from the record after the numbers of Coronavirus cases detected in all three spiked up.
The criteria to that the Council decides for which third countries the current travel restriction should be eliminated are based in particular on the epidemiological scenario and containment measures, together with physical distancing, as well as economic and social issues.
Uruguay, now removed from the list, has marked 10,893 cases to date, with 102 total deaths
