American travelers should show a negative Covid test in order to enter European countries, the World Health Organization implied today as the US became the world’s hotspot for XBB.1.5.
Catherine Smallwood, the agency’s senior emergency officer for Europe, implied the rule-change at a press conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
But she stopped short of recommending testing mandates ‘at this stage’, instead urging people on long-haul flights to wear face masks to curb the spread of Covid.