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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

EU Lifts Mask Requirement for Air Travel

A passenger looks at a departures board with cancelled flights from Paris to London and Bristol at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy near Paris, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in France, December 21, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

The European Union will no longer require masks to be worn at airports and on planes starting next week amid the easing of coronavirus restrictions across the bloc, authorities said Wednesday.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency said it hoped the joint decision, made with the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, would mark “a big step forward in the normalization of air travel" for passengers and crews.

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