There are better days ahead for travel, as EU countries consider treating COVID-19 like the flu

There are better days ahead for travel, as EU countries consider treating COVID-19 like the flu

There are better days ahead for travel, as EU countries consider treating COVID-19 like the flu

Despite the growing number of COVID-19 and Omicron variant cases in Europe, traveling may become less difficult and easier.

The World Health Organization (WHO), which tracks data on COVID-19, has shown that France has seen almost two million new cases in the past seven days (1,854,631) and Italy 1,158,234, Spain 690.129, and Germany 342,973.

The COVID-19 new variant was discovered in November and is now more transmissible than other COVID-19 variants. The WHO warned that the Omicron virus variant will infect half of Europe within the next two weeks.

The variant that appeared to be quite frightening at first turned out to have a milder form of the virus. Those who caught it experienced less severe symptoms and ended up in hospital less often than those who had other COVID-19 varieties.

Many countries around the world, including the European Union, have begun to treat the Coronavirus as if it were the flu. Bloomberg reports that Spain was the first EU country to recommend people get used to COVID-19 and call on other Member States to treat it as an endemic illness.

" We must evaluate the evolution in Covid from a pandemic to an epidemic illness," Pedro Sanchez, the country's Prime Minster, stated in a radio interview.

According to experts at SchengenVisaInfo.com, similar approaches as Spain's may soon be taken by other EU countries, as a large share of the Member States have recently facilitated travel restrictions by shortening quarantine periods, in spite of the spread of Omicron.

Estonia, for example, has reduced its quarantine obligation to from ten days to seven .

Iceland also reduced the quarantine period from ten days to seven days. Prior to this, there was a 10-day quarantine period for anyone who had contracted the virus. After the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the quarantine period would be reduced to five days for US citizens, the decision was made.


The quarantine can be lifted in Slovenia on the fifth day after a COVID-19 testing, which has negative results. The test was only available on the seventh day before January 10.

The EU countries have shortened quarantine times and shortened the validity time of vaccination certificates to encourage more people to get booster vaccinations. This is because the effectiveness of primary vaccination has waned over time.

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