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elleng

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Mon Mar 16, 2020, 02:32 PM Mar 2020

EU to suspend all non-essential foreign arrivals to halt pandemic spread.

'Brussels announces most dramatic crackdown yet to try to curb the continent’s escalating pandemic.

The EU is banning the “non-essential” entry of all foreign nationals, in the most dramatic crackdown yet to try to curb the continent’s coronavirus pandemic.

Only residents, family members and essential staff – healthcare workers and medical experts – will be exempt from the measures, to be imposed for 30 days initially.'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-europe-travel-ban-schengen-border-germany-france-eu-commission-a9404656.html?

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EU to suspend all non-essential foreign arrivals to halt pandemic spread. (Original Post) elleng Mar 2020 OP
Good. We should do the same. former9thward Mar 2020 #1
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