Brussels, June 25 (RHC)-- European Union countries are considering banning entry to Americans as the U.S. has failed in controlling the spread of the coronavirus, according to draft lists of travellers seen by The New York Times.

The newspaper reported that there are two potential lists of travellers who would be exempted from the ban pending on how their countries handled the outbreak.

As selecting criteria, countries should not exceed the EU's average number of new infections - in the past 14 days - per 100,000 people, currently standing at 16.

For the United States, the same figure now is 107, for Brazil 190 and Russia at 80.

EU officials have warned that failing in agreeing over the final list -- which will be presented next week and revised every 14 days -- could trigger the reintroduction of border restrictions among the bloc's members.

Visitors coming from outside the EU cannot enter the 27-member bloc since March, however they are expected to be allowed to do so starting on July 1st.