{"id":120134,"date":"2021-04-26T09:41:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T01:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120134"},"modified":"2021-04-26T09:41:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T01:41:54","slug":"covid-19-european-union-will-let-vaccinated-americans-visit-this-summer-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120134","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: European Union will let vaccinated Americans visit this summer &#8211; Official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com\/reuters\/OFIIMQ5YYROK7F2UCIUX7GMG4E.jpg\" alt=\"Travelers go through general screening at a security checkpoint at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Washington, U.S. April 12, 2021.  REUTERS\/Lindsey Wasson\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Travelers go through general screening at a security checkpoint at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A top European Union official said that Americans who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 should be able to travel to Europe by summer, easing existing travel restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told The New York Times that the union&#8217;s 27 members would &#8220;accept, unconditionally, all those who are vaccinated with vaccines that are approved&nbsp;by the EMA&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency has approved the three vaccines used in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Americans, as far as I can see, use European Medicines Agency-approved vaccines,&#8221; von der Leyen said. &#8220;This will enable free movement and travel to the European Union.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She did not say when travel could resume. The European Union largely shut down nonessential travel more than a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>European Union countries agreed this month to launch COVID-19 travel passes that would permit people who have been vaccinated against the disease, recovered from an infection or have tested negative to travel more easily. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelers go through general screening at a security checkpoint at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport WASHINGTON, April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A top European Union official said that Americans who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 should be able to travel to Europe by summer, easing existing travel restrictions. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told The New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120134"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}