EU travel industry steps up quarantine pushback | Malay Mail

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BRUSSELS, Sept 18 — Leaders of Europe's coronavirus-stricken travel and tourism industries have appealed to the EU's chief executive to press governments to end quarantine requirements and instead embrace coordinated restrictions and testing. “This chaotic situation requires your immediate...

EC President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a plenary session of the European Parliament as the Covid-19 outbreak continues, in Brussels, Belgium September 16, 2020. — Reuters pic

The appeal came as data from airports' group ACI Europe, one of the signatories to the September 17 letter, pointed to a “double-dip” air traffic slump, with passenger numbers down 73 per cent in the first two weeks of September, after a 65 per cent decline in August. Ireland, where travel curbs have been challenged in court by Ryanair, moved yesterday to quarantine arrivals from Italy and Greece on the basis of stricter infection-rate criteria than those proposed by the EU.

 

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