2021-07-12 04:05:56 GMT2021-07-12 12:05:56(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Fu Yiming and Patrick Ekstrand
STOCKHOLM, July 12 (Xinhua) Another wave of COVID-19 infections, mostly driven by the Delta variant, is poised to sweep across Europe following its recent easing of restrictions and resumption of cross-border travels.
While some countries, undaunted by the worrying signs, decided to further relax restrictions, many others again tightened sanitary measures to the disappointment of holiday-making crowds, as authorities see no other solution even though they rely heavily on tourist consumption.
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Reassured by mass vaccination, fewer patients in intensive care and a dwindling number of deaths since late spring, many European countries have recently announced easing of restrictions that had been introduced to slow down the spread of COVID-19.
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2021-05-08 11:05:37 GMT2021-05-08 19:05:37(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Xinhua writers Chen Wenxian, Chen Zhanjie
VALLETTA, May 8 (Xinhua) With the speedy rollout of vaccinations, Europe has witnessed an improved COVID-19 pandemic situation and called for reopening its tourism sector.
The Digital Green Certificate, introduced by the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union (EU), and expected to be implemented from June, will help ease restrictions on non-essential travels to the EU.
Industry insiders and observers said that those measures will give a boost to the gloomy tourism sector though there is a long way to go before the sector reaches the pre-pandemic levels.