European Union health ministers will today discuss whether to adjust the travel curbs the bloc’s nations have imposed on Southern Africa in response to the omicron variant.

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7 December 2021

An EU diplomat familiar with the agenda says the ministers may agree on the need for a PCR test for vaccinated nationals from that region, which could allow some travel bans to be eased or lifted in a week, but nothing has been confirmed yet.

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