The EU health pass, enabling to travel between EU countries requiring it, could be needed longer, one extra year than expected, until June 30, 2023, following the vote at the EU Parliament.
The coronavirus epidemic once again takes Europe into fear of mass contaminations WHO considers there will be "a new wave in the WHO European region unless we remain disciplined". After declining for ten weeks in a row, as countries have already started to economically exit lcokdown, new case tolls are increasing in the Old Continent.
This Monday December 21, 2020 Health Minister says the new variant of Covid-19, detected in south-eastern England might be already spreading in France. So far, even though the mutation has not been identified yet in France, borders with the United Kingdom are closed for many European Union state members. A crisis meeting is planned today.
As the second Covid-19 epidemic wave keeps on killing thousands of people across the world, European Union heads of States agreed on Thursday October 29, 2020 to better coordinate their vaccine strategies, but specifically in order to unlock funds to transfer Covid patients from one country to the other.