FILE PHOTO - People suspected to have coronavirus disease (COVID-19) stand in front of the Hospital for Infectious and Tropical Diseases of the Clinical Center of Serbia in Belgrade, Serbia June 26, 2020. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has decided to drop Serbia and Montenegro from its safe list of countries from which non-essential travel is allowed, and did not even discuss including the United States given its sharp rise in coronavirus cases, EU officials said.
EU diplomats on Tuesday approved a proposal from Germany, now holding the rotating EU presidency, to exclude non-EU Serbia and Montenegro because of spreading infections, officials told Reuters.
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