Coronavirus: EU travel ban imminent as France enters 'war' footing

Macron tells citizens to prepare for ‘long and difficult crisis’ ahead of EU leaders’ conferenceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe EU is set to endorse the strictest travel ban in its history as France joined Italy and Spain in full lockdown and Donald Trump told Americans to change their behaviour, acknowledging for the first time that beating the coronavirus could take months.EU leaders are expected on Tuesday to suspend all travel into the passport-free Schengen zone by non-EU nationals for at least 30 days in a bid to instil uniformity across the bloc after some member states, including Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland, unilaterally began imposing border checks.Continue reading...
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