MAASTRICHT: The European Commission has urged tougher Covid-19 screening of travelers as it frantically seeks to get to the bottom of vaccine delivery delays jeopardizing its inoculation strategy.

The European Union executive called on the 27 member states to impose pretrip polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for all travelers allowed into the EU — presently only on “essential” business — and quarantine on arrival if they came from zones where more-contagious virus variants were spreading

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