Italy on Thursday urged the rest of the European Union to follow its lead and test travellers from China for COVID, but others said they saw no need to do so for now or were waiting for a common stance across the largely border-less bloc.
The EU's health officials could not agree on one course of action when they held talks in the morning and said they would continue their talks later.
The scale of the outbreak in China and doubts over official data have prompted countries including the United States and Japan toIn the EU, so far only Italy has ordered COVID-19 antigen swabs for all travellers coming from China. This risks not being effective if others in the bloc, where people travel freely from one country to another, will not do the same, Meloni said.started testing passengers arriving from Beijing and Shanghai on Dec. 26 and found that almost half of them were infected.
Norway, which is not an EU member but is part of the bloc's border-free deal, was taking a similar approach. "We need to act jointly & will continue our discussions," the European Commission said in a tweet, without specifying when talks would resume.
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