Rwanda is among four African countries whose citizens will be allowed into the Schengen area from
July 11 once countries there start opening their borders, reports say.
The Schengen area includes; Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
This comes as, across Europe, governments started to open their borders after weeks of closure during the coronavirus pandemic.
In the UK, reports indicated that blanket restrictions on non-essential overseas travel will be relaxed from July 6.
The EU is reportedly considering reopening borders to visitors from more than 10 countries outside the bloc including Japan, South Korea and Canada from July 1, after months of travel restrictions over the coronavirus outbreak.
The European Commission, the bloc's executive body, earlier recommended the reopening of external borders from July 1
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