BALTIC TRAVEL BUBBLE

May 18, 2020

The Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have opened their borders to one another, creating a coronavirus "travel bubble".

About:

  • Now, citizens and residents can move freely between the three EU nations. Anybody arriving from outside the zone however must self-isolate for 14 days.

  • This is the first "travel bubble" in Europe since nations began shutting their borders earlier this year in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

  • The sparsely populated Baltic states have not been as badly affected by the pandemic as some of their European neighbours. There are fewer than 150 recorded deaths between the three nations.

  • Both Finland and Poland have also been approached to join the Baltic travel bubble.