On the evening of Wednesday 4 January, Health and Home Affairs experts from the Member States meeting in the crisis management group (IPCR) managed to agree on a series of precautionary measures to respond to the surge in Covid-19 cases in China. However, they failed to agree on mandatory negative tests for those people travelling to the EU from China.
Nevertheless, at this stage, it was only strongly recommended that the Member States require negative tests taken not more than 48 hours...