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Omicron: Brussels calls on the 27 to coordinate traffic restrictions

2021-12-07T15:11:14.691Z


The European Commission called on the Twenty-Seven on Tuesday, December 7 to coordinate their movement restrictions in the face of the Covid-19 outbreak and ...


The European Commission called on the Twenty-Seven on Tuesday, December 7 to coordinate their movement restrictions in the face of the Covid-19 outbreak and concerns about the Omicron variant, renewing its call to further accelerate vaccination campaigns.

"

It is essential that we maintain a fully coordinated approach

" in border restrictions and travel recommendations in order to "

ensure predictability for citizens

", underlined Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at a meeting of EU health ministers in Brussels.

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States retain the last word in the field of health, at the risk of seeing a reappearance of a mosaic of national restrictions, as at the start of the pandemic. In terms of health, beyond the wearing of masks and distancing, "

we must maintain or re-establish targeted and intelligent public health measures

", particularly "

in the run-up to Christmas

" and the end-of-year celebrations. , she pleaded.

The Commissioner urged member states to "

close the immunization gap

" as large disparities remain between countries.

66% of Europeans are now fully vaccinated, but faced with more contagious variants, this is not enough,

” she said.

The emergence of Omicron requires "

reminders

" when this new variant is already present in "

more than half

" of the member states, she added.

European summit on December 16

The first data on Omicron confirm its high transmissibility: Denmark this weekend reported a tripling of confirmed cases in 48 hours.

According to the latest score from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), 212 cases had been confirmed with certainty in the EU and associated countries (Iceland, Norway), Monday at midday.

We don't know everything about Omicron yet.

It is therefore important to restrict travel (to the EU) to keep the incidence of this variant in Europe and Germany as low as possible,

”said German Minister of Health Jens Spahn upon his arrival in Brussels.

The outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic will be the first item on the agenda of the European summit on December 16.

Heads of State and Government should agree to "

ensure that (anti-Covid) restrictions do not undermine the single market and do not disproportionately hamper travel between Member States and to Europe

", According to provisional conclusions consulted by AFP.

Source: lefigaro

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