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Worried by the recent increase in positive COVID-19 cases across Europe,\u00a0<\/span>MEPs<\/span>\u00a0deplore that member states have not learned the lessons from the beginning of the crisis and have yet again taken different and uncoordinated measures.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In a resolution adopted by 595 votes in favour, 50 against and 41 abstentions on Thursday, they point to the lack of harmonised methodology used to collect and evaluate the number of infected people, leading to differing health risk assessments and restrictions of free movement for people travelling from other EU countries.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Following\u00a0<\/span>a<\/span><\/a>\u00a0with Commissioner Didier Reynders and Minister Michael Roth of the German presidency, Parliament urges member states to<\/span>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The\u00a0<\/span>European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(ECDC) should be in charge of assessing the risk of the virus spreading and publishing a weekly updated risk map (per region) using a common colour code, based on the data provided by the member states,\u00a0<\/span>MEPs<\/span>\u00a0say. Its resources and staff should be increased immediately, they add.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Encourage the use of tracing apps<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The resolution asks the Commission to develop a harmonised passenger locator form to build trust in an EU-wide monitoring system. The use of\u00a0<\/span>tracing apps<\/span><\/a>\u00a0should be encouraged, according to\u00a0<\/span>MEPs<\/span>, who expect the national systems to be interoperable by October, to allow for EU-wide\u00a0<\/span>COVID-19 tracing. They underline that these apps must operate in full compliance with the\u00a0<\/span>General Data Protection Regulation<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Worried by the recent increase in positive COVID-19 cases across Europe,\u00a0MEPs\u00a0deplore that member states have not learned the lessons from the beginning of the crisis and have yet again […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4083,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[187],"issuem_issue_categories":[8],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4094,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4092\/revisions\/4094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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