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The European Union will recommend this Monday that member states reinstate travel restrictions due to covid-19 and suspend non-essential travel from the United States and five other countries, according to various reports.
The EU would reinstate coronavirus travel restrictions, such as quarantine and testing requirements for unvaccinated travelers from those countries, two diplomats told Reuters.
A diplomat told Reuters that the other countries to be removed from the safe travel list would be Kosovo, Israel, Montenegro, Lebanon and North Macedonia.
The decision to renew travel restrictions would be final on Monday if no country in the bloc objects, the sources, as well as two EU officials, told Reuters.
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The European Council, the EU's governing body, recommended that the bloc lift restrictions on non-essential travel from 14 countries, including the United States, in June.
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However, COVID-19 cases in the United States have risen in recent weeks, as the highly infectious delta variant spreads among unvaccinated Americans.
Covid-19 cases among children are also reaching levels not seen since winter.
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"What is happening now is completely predictable, and also completely preventable. And you know that we know we have the means with vaccines to reverse this," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the US government's leading infectious disease expert. "We could reverse this and we could do it efficiently and quickly if we just vaccinated those people."
Nationwide, 52.1% of the population was fully vaccinated as of Saturday, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Florida had the highest COVID-19 hospitalization rate in the country on Saturday, with 75 patients per 100,000 hospital residents with the virus, according to data from federal health officials and Johns Hopkins University.
It also hit another peak in covid-19 cases during the pandemic on Friday, reporting 690.5 new cases per 100,000 people each day from Aug. 20 to Aug. 26, state data showed.
Spain lifted restrictions on Colombian travelers.
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Less than 50% of the people in South Carolina, Louisiana, and Texas are fully vaccinated.
Studies have shown that full vaccination is necessary for optimal protection against the delta variant.
Several hospitals in those four states - Florida, South Carolina, Texas, and Louisiana - are battling oxygen shortages.
Some are at risk of having to use their reserve supply or running out of oxygen imminently, according to state health officials and hospital consultants.
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