EU proposes booster jabs for 2022 travel, opens to WHO vaccines

The Commission wants to harmonise rules across the 27 EU nations to allow free movement, a cornerstone of the European Union but is facing new restrictions as cases break records in Europe and many EU countries roll out booster doses

Passengers have to show their Covid Vaccine certs in Dublin Airport so they can travel. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/ RollingNews.ie

European Union residents will need to have Covid-19 vaccine booster jabs if they want to travel to another country in the bloc next summer free of tests or quarantines, the European Commission proposed on Thursday.

The EU executive also proposed accepting all vaccines approved by the World Health Organization for travel purposes, which would allow non-essential travel to the EU from outside the bloc for people vaccinated with Chinese shots and vaccines made in India.