As I mentioned earlier Joe I suspect RT-PCR tests will also feature in the summer tourist season plans of the Med countries.
The Covid outbreak in the French rugby squad originated with a player who had a negative PCR test prior to entering the bubble, so testing alone isn't a solution.
I agree.
But negative testing from a country where most adults have had a least one vaccine and herd immunity has been reached for visitors to a Greek island where all locals have also been vaccinated is a different matter and is the current objective of the Greek government intent on saving their summer tourist season.
Greece are opening up to U.K. tourists from May 14th. Dunno what the requirements are (UK passport/UK departure/Covid passport?).
I agree.
Vaccines won't be the only key to unlock travel this summer.
Family holidays don't happen if only the parents have been vaxxed.
I think it will be a mixture of vaccines and PCR tests on an app with QR code readability.
In the UK the NHS app seems an obvious candidate and the HSE app here could easily be reworked.
That's if preparations are being made now ...
What does that mean for irish tourists though travelling from for example the UK? also will Ireland open up to UK travel aswell since they will largely be vaccinated, last year was very easy for irish government, just stop everything, now they have some very tricky decisions to make. It would look really bad if UK travellers were free to enter the country but irish travellers would have to present a negative PCR test.
@Wahaay but in fairness to the government they only introduced that after the UK variant was announced by boris at Christmas, the irish government was actually very reluctant to introduce restrictions with the UK. The UK variant was also the reason for the huge Christmas upsurge (however I don't understand why we need label it the UK variant when labeling the "China virus " was regarded as racist) But I think this new situation needs different heads, I think that Tony holohan off the scene again is a good thing, (albeit for tragic personal reasons), I think ronan glynn would be a better guy in charge as we open up again.
At this moment I'd be delighted if one third of ROI people had had their first jab.Interesting piece by George Lee last night.
About one third of NI residents have received their first jab, but the 7-day and 14-day incidence rates are only marginally better than the Republic.
At this moment I'd be delighted if one third of ROI people had had their first jab.
I heard some say that opening up one part of a country because it has low infection rates while there are high rates in the rest of the country is like having one end of a swimming pool that you are allowed to pee in.You would imagine that the transmission rates in NI should be much better than the Republic all the time considering there is only 6 counties.
For a long time they were much worse than us ..
We spent all last year dissing them for their poor response to corona virus, we should at least give some credit for the success they are having now.
Greece are opening up to U.K. tourists from May 14th. Dunno what the requirements are (UK passport/UK departure/Covid passport?).
New Cases | Daily Average | New Deaths | Daily Average | |
Jan | 18107 | 584 | 958 | 31 |
Feb | 34143 | 1219 | 708 | 25 |
Mar | 25918 | 2160 | 482 | 40 |
I wonder will that happen.
The Greek figures have been on an upward trajectory since February.
The reported new cases and new deaths figures for the year up to March 12 show daily averages of:
New Cases Daily Average New Deaths Daily Average Jan 18107 584 958 31Feb 34143 1219 708 25Mar 25918 2160 482 40
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