COVID-19 response: How have international travel restrictions affected freedom of movement during the pandemic?

29 June 2021 12:00 – 13:00 CET

Tuesday 29 June 2021 from 12:00-13:00 CET

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries across the WHO European Region have imposed international travel restrictions. These have included entry bans, testing and quarantine measures which fluctuate weekly or biweekly based on a set of risk-assessment criteria such as the status of the epidemiological situations in countries of departure and arrival and the emergence of variants of concern. How have travel policies affected the free movement of people across borders? How have they changed in response to the vaccination rollout? What are the international recommendations for implementing travel restrictions? Join us in this webinar to find out! 

Keynote speaker:

  • Tanja Schmidt, World Health Organization (WHO)

Spotlight speakers:

  • Renato Lourenço Silva, Directorate-General of Health, Ministry of Health, Portugal
    Co-host: Mariana Ferreira, Public Health Emergencies Operations Centre, Ministry of Health, Portugal
  • Rolf Appels, Advisor, Medical Advisor, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), the Netherlands
  • Juliane Knop, German Federal Ministry of Health, Germany

Moderators:

  • Matthias Wismar and Erica Richardson, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies


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