EU Resists Further Travel Opening With New Virus Wave a Risk
- U.S., most other nations remain blacklisted for two more weeks
- Bloc completes first review of July 1 easing of border closure
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The European Union recommended keeping its external borders shut to Americans and most other foreigners for at least two more weeks as fears grow of a second coronavirus wave, according to officials familiar with the matter.
Member-government envoys in Brussels on Tuesday urged no expansion of a list of 15 countries -- Canada, Japan, South Korea and China among them -- whose residents were given the green light two weeks ago to visit the EU, the officials said on the condition of anonymity.