E.U. residents who have been fully vaccinated or have tested negative will be exempt from most restrictions when traveling within the bloc. The Delta variant is surging in parts of the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. …
Scotland supporters celebrating at the Euro 2020 soccer championship match between Scotland and England at Wembley Stadium in London on June 18.Credit…Carl Recine/Associated Press
Crowds gathering in stadiums, pubs and bars to watch the European Championship soccer games have driven a rise in coronavirus cases across Europe, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, raising concerns about another virus waveeven though vaccination campaigns have made progress.
“We need to look much beyond just the stadiums themselves,” said Catherine Smallwood, the W.H.O.’s senior emergency officer. “We need to look at how people get there: Are they traveling in large, crowded convoys of buses? And when they leave the stadiums, are they going into crowded bars and pubs to watch the matches?”
In Scotland, more than 2,000 people tested positive after watching a Euro 2020 game either at a stadium, a fan zone or at a pub, according to National Health Scotland. (Nearly two-thirds of those cases were linked to a Euro 2020 game
