Europe may ban travel from US citing coronavirus failures. Covid19 Update

The European Union is planning to reopen its borders on July 1, allowing some travelers in for the first time since the closure as the coronavirus pandemic worsened in March.

However, Americans might not be welcome.

The EU is considering barring Americans from entering the bloc because the United States has not adequately controlled the spread of COVID-19, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing draft lists of travelers who would be allowed.

Travelers from Russia and Brazil would also be blocked from entering EU countries under the lists, according to The Times.

The move would be a major blow to America’s prestige and world image, despite the Trump administration’s claims that the US’s outbreak is under control. The US has had more than 2.3 million coronavirus cases and 120,000 deaths, more than any other country.

In early March, the Trump administration barred travel to the US from much of Europe, citing outbreaks in northern Italy, Germany, and elsewhere in the European Union. The prohibition has not been lifted, even as Europe has largely contained its outbreaks.

The European border closure, which came later in March, applied to visitors from most countries outside the bloc, not specifically Americans. However, the new ban, expected to be announced before July 1, calls out several countries that have handled outbreaks poorly and seen increases in cases.

Countries identified as safe on the draft lists were selected based on several objective criteria, according to The Times. The primary benchmark is the EU’s average number of new infections per 100,000 people over the past two weeks. For the EU, that number is 16. For the US, it’s 107,

Brazil’s average number of infections per 100,000 people over the past two weeks is 190, and Russia’s is 80, according to The Times.

The list would be revisited every two weeks based on new case counts, the report said.

Prohibiting Americans would have significant consequences for the EU. Millions of American tourists visit countries in the bloc each year. As travel demand recovers and Americans seek to travel abroad again, and as economies normally reliant on tourism seek to curb the fallout from the pandemic, the exclusion of a large and lucrative group of tourists would be damaging.

Similarly, European leisure travelers spend millions in the US each year; the US could leave its ban on travel from Europe in place as retaliation.

Business travelers often travel among the countries as well. However, corporate travel has been slower to recover after coming to a halt earlier in the pandemic.

A finalized list is set to be presented next week, according to The Times. The EU’s member states will not be required to adopt it, but those that don’t could see internal borders imposed or even closed to prevent people from crossing.

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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

Reported Cases and Deaths by Country, Territory, or Conveyance

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 213 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances. The day is reset after midnight GMT+0. The list of countries and territories and their continental regional classification is based on the United Nations Geoscheme. Sources are provided under “Latest Updates”.

#	Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests	Tests/ 1M pop	Population
	World	9,421,345	+75,777	481,405	+2,456	5,092,269	3,847,671	58,024	1,209	61.8
1	USA	2,437,408	+13,240	123,716	+243	1,021,835	1,291,857	16,502	7,365	374	29,631,859	89,532	330,965,224
2	Brazil	1,152,066	+587	52,788	+17	613,345	485,933	8,318	5,421	248	2,678,426	12,603	212,529,324
3	Russia	606,881	+7,176	8,513	+154	368,822	229,546	2,300	4,159	58	17,803,955	122,001	145,933,426
4	India	471,841	+15,726	14,894	+411	270,598	186,349	8,944	342	11	7,352,911	5,329	1,379,715,223
5	UK	306,862	+652	43,081	+154	N/A	N/A	340	4,521	635	8,542,186	125,844	67,879,245
6	Spain	293,832		28,325		N/A	N/A	617	6,285	606	5,162,909	110,426	46,754,479
7	Peru	260,810		8,404		148,437	103,969	1,144	7,913	255	1,539,746	46,714	32,961,088
8	Chile	250,767		4,505		210,570	35,692	2,009	13,120	236	995,060	52,062	19,112,809
9	Italy	238,833		34,675		184,585	19,573	115	3,950	573	5,053,827	83,585	60,463,214
10	Iran	212,501	+2,531	9,996	+133	172,096	30,409	2,869	2,531	119	1,502,525	17,894	83,968,383
11	Germany	192,906	+128	8,986		176,300	7,620	337	2,303	107	5,029,696	60,035	83,779,137
12	Mexico	191,410	+6,288	23,377	+793	144,448	23,585	378	1,485	181	501,871	3,893	128,903,411
13	Turkey	190,165		5,001		162,848	22,316	893	2,255	59	3,029,635	35,931	84,319,290
14	Pakistan	188,926	+3,892	3,755	+60	77,754	107,417	3,337	856	17	1,150,141	5,209	220,779,366
15	Saudi Arabia	167,267	+3,123	1,387	+41	112,797	53,083	2,129	4,806	40	1,407,508	40,445	34,800,695
16	France	161,267		29,720		74,871	56,676	682	2,471	455	1,384,633	21,214	65,270,992
17	Bangladesh	122,660	+3,462	1,582	+37	49,666	71,412	1	745	10	663,444	4,029	164,654,303
18	South Africa	106,108		2,102		55,045	48,961	208	1,790	35	1,382,772	23,322	59,291,678
19	Canada	101,963		8,454		64,704	28,805	2,058	2,702	224	2,482,869	65,797	37,735,282
20	Qatar	90,778	+1,199	104	+5	73,083	17,591	219	32,331	37	333,172	118,659	2,807,805
21	China	83,430	+12	4,634		78,428	368	10	58	3			1,439,323,776
22	Colombia	73,572		2,404		30,459	40,709	335	1,446	47	634,611	12,475	50,871,101
23	Belgium	60,898	+88	9,722	+9	16,771	34,405	41	5,255	839	1,145,258	98,826	11,588,689
24	Sweden	60,837		5,161		N/A	N/A	193	6,025	511	385,659	38,191	10,098,039
25	Belarus	59,945	+458	362	+5	40,136	19,447	89	6,344	38	901,904	95,446	9,449,373
26	Egypt	58,141		2,365		15,535	40,241	41	568	23	135,000	1,320	102,284,138
27	Ecuador	51,643		4,274		24,991	22,378	273	2,928	242	139,333	7,900	17,636,598
28	Netherlands	49,804	+82	6,097	+2	N/A	N/A	48	2,907	356	561,863	32,792	17,134,211
29	Indonesia	49,009	+1,113	2,573	+38	19,658	26,778		179	9	689,452	2,521	273,460,863
30	Argentina	47,216	+13	1,085	+7	13,816	32,315	353	1,045	24	300,345	6,647	45,187,075
31	UAE	45,683		305		33,703	11,675	1	4,620	31	3,038,000	307,250	9,887,716
32	Singapore	42,623	+191	26		36,299	6,298	1	7,287	4	684,359	116,996	5,849,408
33	Kuwait	41,879	+846	337	+3	32,809	8,733	153	9,810	79	365,224	85,551	4,269,062
34	Portugal	40,104	+367	1,543	+3	26,083	12,478	73	3,933	151	1,102,066	108,076	10,197,152
35	Ukraine	39,014	+940	1,051	+16	17,409	20,554	367	892	24	594,002	13,581	43,737,278
36	Iraq	36,702	+2,200	1,330	+79	16,814	18,558	222	913	33	455,316	11,327	40,197,254
37	Oman	33,536	+1,142	142	+2	17,972	15,422	100	6,572	28	169,105	33,140	5,102,783
38	Poland	32,821	+294	1,396	+21	18,134	13,291	65	867	37	1,399,647	36,981	37,847,266
39	Philippines	32,295	+470	1,204	+18	8,656	22,435	82	295	11	617,932	5,641	109,547,363
40	Switzerland	31,376	+44	1,958	+2	29,000	418	12	3,626	226	523,909	60,544	8,653,355
41	Afghanistan	29,640	+159	639	+21	9,869	19,132	19	762	16	67,282	1,729	38,903,793
42	Dominican Republic	28,631	+695	691	+16	16,006	11,934	182	2,640	64	133,718	12,329	10,845,581
43	Panama	27,314		536		14,694	12,084	132	6,333	124	111,735	25,906	4,313,110
44	Bolivia	26,389	+896	846	+26	6,300	19,243	71	2,261	72	63,211	5,417	11,669,313
45	Ireland	25,391		1,720		22,698	973	17	5,143	348	408,344	82,718	4,936,572
46	Romania	24,826	+321	1,555	+16	17,391	5,880	186	1,290	81	651,003	33,837	19,239,367
47	Bahrain	23,062		68	+1	17,450	5,544	36	13,570	40	494,028	290,687	1,699,518
48	Armenia	21,717	+711	386	+14	10,797	10,534	10	7,329	130	100,400	33,883	2,963,147
49	Israel	21,666	+154	308		15,898	5,460	45	2,356	33	886,058	96,336	9,197,590
50	Nigeria	21,371		533		7,338	13,500	7	104	3	117,569	571	205,990,223
51	Kazakhstan	18,765	+534	134		11,585	7,046	121	1,000	7	1,401,692	74,671	18,771,673
52	Japan	17,968		955		16,212	801	62	142	8	424,767	3,358	126,482,200
53	Austria	17,449	+41	693		16,282	474	11	1,938	77	578,584	64,248	9,005,411
54	Moldova	15,078	+364	495	+5	8,400	6,183	476	3,738	123	63,328	15,698	4,034,105
55	Ghana	14,568		95		10,907	3,566	6	469	3	277,550	8,937	31,055,350
56	Guatemala	14,540	+771	582	+35	2,897	11,061	5	812	33	31,427	1,755	17,907,001
57	Azerbaijan	14,305	+590	174	+7	7,768	6,363	66	1,411	17	441,961	43,598	10,137,268
58	Honduras	13,943	+587	405	+10	1,461	12,077	13	1,408	41	21,540	2,176	9,900,751
59	Serbia	13,235	+143	263		12,111	861	21	1,515	30	359,069	41,093	8,737,876
60	Denmark	12,615	+54	603		11,422	590	8	2,178	104	960,076	165,764	5,791,833
61	S. Korea	12,535	+51	281		10,930	1,324	15	244	5	1,208,597	23,574	51,268,445
62	Cameroon	12,270		313		7,774	4,183	28	463	12			26,526,506
63	Algeria	12,076		861		8,674	2,541	37	276	20			43,830,761
64	Czechia	10,728	+78	343	+4	7,588	2,797	9	1,002	32	528,611	49,363	10,708,638
65	Nepal	10,728	+629	24		2,338	8,366		368	0.8	476,890	16,375	29,123,404
66	Morocco	10,693	+349	214		8,426	2,053	7	290	6	586,089	15,883	36,900,779
67	Sudan	8,889		548		3,699	4,642		203	13	401	9	43,820,129
68	Norway	8,788	+16	249	+1	8,138	401	6	1,621	46	313,162	57,775	5,420,381
69	Malaysia	8,596	+6	121		8,231	244	2	266	4	704,336	21,768	32,356,521
70	Ivory Coast	7,904		58		3,182	4,664		300	2	47,299	1,794	26,359,186
71	Australia	7,521	+29	103	+1	6,915	503	3	295	4	2,153,127	84,459	25,493,307
72	Finland	7,167	+12	327		6,600	240	2	1,294	59	235,500	42,505	5,540,573
73	Uzbekistan	6,847	+185	19		4,675	2,153	19	205	0.6	1,038,575	31,041	33,457,690
74	DRC	6,213	+186	142	+7	870	5,201		69	2			89,473,372
75	Senegal	6,129	+95	93	+4	4,072	1,964	24	366	6	72,112	4,310	16,730,649
76	Tajikistan	5,630	+63	52		4,194	1,384		591	5			9,531,652
77	North Macedonia	5,445	+134	259	+8	2,091	3,095	55	2,614	124	54,456	26,138	2,083,375
78	Haiti	5,324	+113	89	+1	436	4,799		467	8	10,825	950	11,399,396
79	Kenya	5,206	+254	130	+2	1,823	3,253	7	97	2	151,396	2,817	53,738,440
80	El Salvador	5,150	+177	119	+6	2,924	2,107	141	794	18	147,771	22,785	6,485,588
81	Guinea	5,104	+64	29	+1	3,744	1,331	24	389	2	14,407	1,098	13,121,925
82	Ethiopia	5,034	+186	78	+3	1,486	3,470	38	44	0.7	227,375	1,979	114,880,361
83	Gabon	4,849		39		2,107	2,703	9	2,180	18	30,095	13,531	2,224,233
84	Djibouti	4,630	+13	52	+3	4,182	396		4,688	53	45,560	46,129	987,659
85	Venezuela	4,187		35		1,327	2,825	6	147	1	1,143,648	40,217	28,437,143
86	Luxembourg	4,140	+7	110		3,965	65	1	6,616	176	156,089	249,452	625,727
87	Hungary	4,114	+7	576	+3	2,618	920	13	426	60	261,420	27,060	9,660,721
88	Bulgaria	4,114		208		2,217	1,689	13	592	30	122,502	17,628	6,949,106
89	Kyrgyzstan	3,726	+207	42	+1	2,082	1,602	30	571	6	191,137	29,309	6,521,527
90	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,676	+88	173	+1	2,297	1,206	4	1,120	53	84,958	25,893	3,281,090
91	Greece	3,310	+8	190		1,374	1,746	8	318	18	295,639	28,362	10,423,763
92	Mauritania	3,292		114		963	2,215	11	709	25	13,842	2,979	4,645,985
93	Thailand	3,157	+1	58		3,026	73	1	45	0.8	468,175	6,708	69,796,897
94	CAR	3,051		37		522	2,492	2	632	8	20,901	4,329	4,827,646
95	Somalia	2,835	+23	90		829	1,916	2	179	6			15,879,502
96	French Guiana	2,593		8		1,016	1,569	14	8,688	27	8,061	27,009	298,451
97	Mayotte	2,434		31		2,188	215	11	8,928	114	8,800	32,279	272,625
98	Croatia	2,388	+22	107		2,145	136		582	26	73,738	17,960	4,105,604
99	Costa Rica	2,368		12		1,129	1,227	3	465	2	36,135	7,095	5,093,143
100	Cuba	2,319	+1	85		2,130	104	1	205	8	157,387	13,895	11,326,727
101	Maldives	2,238		8		1,813	417	9	4,142	15	42,830	79,270	540,302
102	Nicaragua	2,170		74		1,238	858		328	11			6,622,790
103	Albania	2,114	+67	47	+2	1,217	850	11	735	16	21,437	7,449	2,877,847
104	Mali	2,001	+23	112	+1	1,333	556		99	6	10,932	540	20,232,493
105	Sri Lanka	2,001	+10	11		1,562	428	1	93	0.5	97,402	4,549	21,411,594
106	Estonia	1,983	+1	69		1,783	131	1	1,495	52	103,950	78,363	1,326,520
107	South Sudan	1,930		36		217	1,677	1	172	3	10,165	908	11,190,800
108	Iceland	1,824		10		1,806	8		5,346	29	69,190	202,784	341,200
109	Lithuania	1,804	+1	78	+1	1,484	242	16	663	29	403,841	148,326	2,722,653
110	Madagascar	1,787	+63	16	+1	779	992	8	65	0.6	19,392	701	27,669,848
111	Equatorial Guinea	1,664		32		515	1,117		1,187	23	16,000	11,417	1,401,431
112	Lebanon	1,644	+22	33	+1	1,103	508	8	241	5	120,315	17,626	6,825,877
113	Slovakia	1,607	+18	28		1,448	131		294	5	203,911	37,349	5,459,598
114	Guinea-Bissau	1,556		19		191	1,346	5	791	10	1,500	763	1,966,670
115	Slovenia	1,541	+7	109		1,376	56	2	741	52	96,755	46,541	2,078,933
116	New Zealand	1,516	+1	22		1,483	11		303	4	357,996	71,569	5,002,100
117	Zambia	1,489	+12	18		1,223	248	1	81	1.0	51,626	2,811	18,367,994
118	Paraguay	1,422		13		926	483	1	199	2	59,454	8,338	7,130,560
119	Sierra Leone	1,347		55		853	439		169	7			7,972,631
120	Palestine	1,311	+142	3		442	866		257	0.6	77,631	15,228	5,098,046
121	Hong Kong	1,180	+2	6		1,086	88	1	157	0.8	301,108	40,171	7,495,738
122	Tunisia	1,159		50		1,023	86		98	4	67,456	5,709	11,815,943
123	Latvia	1,111		30		903	178	1	589	16	141,713	75,122	1,886,426
124	Congo	1,087		37		456	594		197	7			5,514,129
125	Jordan	1,071	+24	9		782	280	3	105	0.9	348,679	34,181	10,200,970
126	Niger	1,051		67		913	71		43	3	6,436	266	24,175,449
127	Yemen	992		261		356	375		33	9	120	4	29,807,743
128	Cyprus	990		19		824	147		820	16	148,399	122,930	1,207,183
129	Cabo Verde	982		8		479	495		1,767	14	1,560	2,806	555,855
130	Burkina Faso	919	+12	53		825	41		44	3			20,885,688
131	Georgia	914	+3	14		771	129	5	229	4	90,434	22,669	3,989,285
132	Benin	902	+52	13		277	612	2	74	1	54,653	4,512	12,113,673
133	Uruguay	885		25		815	45	4	255	7	58,845	16,941	3,473,512
134	Chad	860		74		757	29		52	5			16,411,072
135	Andorra	855		52		797	6	1	11,066	673	3,750	48,536	77,263
136	Uganda	805	+8			717	88		18		170,789	3,738	45,693,352
137	Malawi	803		11		258	534	4	42	0.6	11,536	603	19,115,216
138	Rwanda	798		2		371	425		62	0.2	118,112	9,126	12,942,831
139	Mozambique	757		5		206	546		24	0.2	24,348	780	31,228,283
140	Diamond Princess	712		13		651	48	4
141	Sao Tome and Principe	707		12		208	487		3,228	55	1,733	7,911	219,054
142	San Marino	698		42		647	9		20,572	1,238	5,631	165,959	33,930
143	Eswatini	674		7		319	348	5	581	6	6,551	5,648	1,159,905
144	Jamaica	670	+5	10		518	142		226	3	21,658	7,315	2,960,928
145	Malta	665		9		624	32		1,506	20	90,544	205,072	441,522
146	Liberia	652		34		270	348		129	7			5,054,289
147	Libya	639		17		132	490		93	2	23,075	3,359	6,869,118
148	Togo	576		13		384	179	2	70	2	28,509	3,446	8,273,194
149	Channel Islands	570		47		512	11		3,279	270	10,255	58,995	173,829
150	Zimbabwe	525		6		64	455		35	0.4	53,283	3,586	14,857,781
151	Tanzania	509		21		183	305	7	9	0.4			59,681,022
152	Réunion	507		1		460	46	2	566	1	17,200	19,214	895,185
153	Taiwan	446		7		435	4		19	0.3	75,359	3,164	23,816,032
154	Montenegro	383	+5	9		315	59		610	14	13,186	20,995	628,065
155	Vietnam	352	+3			329	23	1	4		275,000	2,826	97,320,289
156	Mauritius	341	+1	10		326	5		268	8	164,182	129,101	1,271,732
157	Isle of Man	336		24		312	0		3,952	282	6,022	70,827	85,024
158	Suriname	319		9		132	178	2	544	15	1,165	1,986	586,522
159	Myanmar	293	+1	6		208	79		5	0.1	66,353	1,220	54,402,611
160	Comoros	265		7		159	99		305	8			869,094
161	Martinique	236		14		98	124		629	37			375,270
162	Syria	231		7		94	130		13	0.4			17,488,343
163	Mongolia	215				168	47	6	66		20,975	6,401	3,276,992
164	Guyana	206		12		107	87	1	262	15	2,168	2,757	786,481
165	Cayman Islands	195		1		154	40		2,968	15	21,282	323,902	65,705
166	Angola	189		10		77	102	1	6	0.3	10,000	305	32,832,816
167	Faeroe Islands	187				187	0		3,827		12,219	250,082	48,860
168	Gibraltar	176				176	0		5,224		11,358	337,123	33,691
169	Guadeloupe	174		14		157	3		435	35	6,900	17,245	400,123
170	Bermuda	146		9		132	5	2	2,344	145	10,373	166,552	62,281
171	Burundi	144		1		93	50		12	0.08	382	32	11,879,456
172	Eritrea	143				39	104		40				3,545,273
173	Brunei	141		3		138	0		322	7	26,848	61,382	437,390
174	Cambodia	130				127	3	1	8		32,281	1,931	16,713,552
175	Trinidad and Tobago	123		8		109	6		88	6	4,331	3,095	1,399,407
176	Bahamas	104		11		83	10	1	265	28	2,360	6,003	393,164
177	Monaco	101		4		95	2		2,574	102	16,200	412,886	39,236
178	Aruba	101		3		98	0		946	28	2,270	21,263	106,758
179	Barbados	97		7		85	5	1	338	24	7,530	26,203	287,369
180	Botswana	89		1		25	63	1	38	0.4	33,919	14,431	2,350,357
181	Liechtenstein	82		1		55	26		2,151	26	900	23,606	38,126
182	Sint Maarten	77		15		62	0		1,796	350	477	11,128	42,865
183	Namibia	76	+4			21	55	1	30		7,740	3,048	2,539,725
184	Bhutan	70	+1			34	36		91		23,749	30,786	771,422
185	French Polynesia	60				60	0		214		4,578	16,299	280,877
186	Macao	45				45	0		69				649,129
187	Saint Martin	42		3		36	3	1	1,087	78	685	17,724	38,649
188	Gambia	42	+1	2		26	14		17	0.8	2,035	843	2,414,560
189	St. Vincent Grenadines	29				27	2		261		763	6,878	110,934
190	Antigua and Barbuda	26		3		22	1	1	266	31	680	6,945	97,912
191	Timor-Leste	24				24	0		18		1,568	1,190	1,317,789
192	Belize	23		2		17	4		58	5	2,043	5,140	397,443
193	Curaçao	23		1		19	3		140	6	1,080	6,582	164,081
194	Grenada	23				23	0		204		4,130	36,707	112,513
195	New Caledonia	21				21	0		74		8,049	28,199	285,440
196	Laos	19				19	0		3		13,507	1,857	7,273,053
197	Saint Lucia	19				18	1		103		1,584	8,627	183,611
198	Dominica	18				18	0		250		623	8,655	71,983
199	Fiji	18				18	0		20		4,000	4,463	896,315
200	Lesotho	17				2	15		8		3,000	1,401	2,141,904
201	Saint Kitts and Nevis	15				15	0		282		435	8,178	53,192
202	Turks and Caicos	14		1		11	2		362	26	416	10,748	38,705
203	Falkland Islands	13				13	0		3,739		981	282,140	3,477
204	Greenland	13				13	0		229		2,830	49,852	56,768
205	Vatican City	12				12	0		14,981				801
206	Montserrat	11		1		10	0		2,204	200	61	12,220	4,992
207	Seychelles	11				11	0		112				98,335
208	Western Sahara	10		1		8	1		17	2			596,911
209	MS Zaandam	9		2			7
210	Papua New Guinea	9				8	1		1		5,281	591	8,942,603
211	British Virgin Islands	8		1		7	0		265	33	212	7,014	30,227
212	Caribbean Netherlands	7				7	0		267		424	16,172	26,218
213	St. Barth	6				6	0		608		152	15,391	9,876
214	Anguilla	3				3	0		200		93	6,200	15,000
215	Saint Pierre Miquelon	1				1	0		173				5,794
	Total:	9,421,345	+75,777	481,405	+2,456	5,092,269	3,847,671	58,024	1,208.7	61.8