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Blinken says too early for a date on lifting travel curbs for EU citizens – Metro US

Blinken says too early for a date on lifting travel curbs for EU citizens

FILE PHOTO: German Foreign Minister Maas and U.S. Secretary of
FILE PHOTO: German Foreign Minister Maas and U.S. Secretary of State Blinken attend joint news conference in Berlin

PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is working on the lifting of COVID-19 travel restrictions imposed on EU citizens but it is premature to put a date on any such move, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.

“We are anxious to be able to restore travel as fully and quickly as possible. I can’t put a date on it, we have to be guided by the science, by medical expertise,” Blinken told a news conference in Paris alongside his French counterpart.

(Reporting by John Irish and Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Richard Lough and Alison Williams)