By Clint Henderson
Senior News Editor
The Points Guy
The European Union has posted an update to its latest list of countries they will welcome beginning July 1, although individual countries are permitted to establish their own visitation policies.
Americans are not on the list of travelers that will be allowed to visit. Among the nations that will be allowed are Australia, Canada, Japan and South Korea. Banned countries include the United States, Russia and Brazil.
The EU says the list will be updated every two weeks.
As of July 15, the European Union will allow citizens from the following countries:
- Algeria
- Australia
- Canada
- Georgia
- Japan
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- New Zealand
- Rwanda
- Serbia
- South Korea
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Uruguay
China, where the coronavirus outbreak began, will also be given entry permissions provided China grants reciprocal rights to Europeans.
The New York Times first reported back on June 26 that the European Union would exclude Americans from its reopening borders. The reason: the U.S. has been unable to control the spread of coronavirus.
Reporter Matina Stevis-Gridneff called it “a stinging blow to American prestige in the world and a repudiation of President Trump’s handling of the virus in the United States.” The United States has the highest death toll in the world from coronavirus. According to Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. death toll is more than 126,000 and there have been more than 2.6 million cases. The U.S. accounts for more than a quarter of all deaths worldwide.