Thread: International travel and Covid 19
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08-19-20 22:25 #83
Posts: 1083Tourists from selected US states to be allowed into Costa Rica
Quoting from today's Tico Times, saying that sometime in September the following.
"USA Tourists will only be welcomed if they are residents of the following states: New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and Connecticut. Passengers must prove their residency in one of those states using their driver's license.
"We have included the license-plate requirement to minimize the likelihood that someone from a non-authorized state be allowed to enter," Segura said. "We are minimizing our epidemiological risk. ".
Tourists must obtain a negative PCR-RT test within 48 hours of their flight and purchase a travel-insurance plan that covers COVID-19. (This can be a pre-approved Costa Rican plan, or a foreign one that meets a series of requirements.).
In addition, all arriving passengers must complete an online health form. ".
End quote.
By "license-plate requirement" I think they mean driver's license.
These are the same requirements as for country / residents currently allowed.
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08-17-20 21:56 #82
Posts: 764Aruba, Anguilla, and Dominica
COVID spiking in Aruba. Only 4 active cases of COVID in early July but now over 900:
https://www.visitaruba.com/news/gene...avel-to-aruba/
Anguilla opening for tourism:
https://www.travelandleisure.com/tra...plans-covid-19
Dominica opens its borders, airlines schedule flights to island:
https://www.travelpulse.com/news/des...rs-reopen.html
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08-17-20 03:39 #81
Posts: 623Thailand
Originally Posted by Quagmire1974 [View Original Post]
"Speaking at a webinar this week, the deputy governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), Chattan Kunjara Na Ayudhya, said it's likely that tourism won't resume until 2021. "The Christmas period, usually the high season, is in jeopardy and I'm looking horribly even to Chinese New Year in 2021," he said of a proposed date to opening borders but stressed that even that date is "iffy" as the government is taking a "very, very cautious approach. ".
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08-17-20 00:06 #80
Posts: 764Originally Posted by Artisttyp [View Original Post]
https://www.vallartadaily.com/new-no...-restrictions/
There's no doubt in my mind that numbers are being skewed, not only in Mexico but in other countries as well. What's that lyric from Don Henley's song, The Garden of Allah? "Because there are no facts, there is no truth. Just data to be manipulated."
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08-16-20 20:21 #79
Posts: 3851Originally Posted by Quagmire1974 [View Original Post]
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08-16-20 19:19 #78
Posts: 764Trinidad and Tobago
Fresh spread of COVID on Trinidad and Tobago. New shutdowns announced and a second lockdown possible:
https://www.caribbeannationalweekly....ntil-december/
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08-16-20 04:25 #77
Posts: 764Mexico and Canada
Conditions beginning to improve in Mexico, with many states dropping from Maximum Alert (Red) to High Alert (Orange):
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/cor...ovid-risk-map/
Closure of border between Canada and United States extended to September 21:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sandram...e058 dc4909 d.
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08-14-20 22:19 #76
Posts: 764Thailand and Aruba
Thailand reopening for tourism in 2021:
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/article...reopening-plan
Tourism booming in Aruba since reopening:
https://www.travelandleisure.com/tri...ng-coronavirus
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08-11-20 20:29 #75
Posts: 1083Originally Posted by TheCane [View Original Post]
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08-11-20 19:31 #74
Posts: 537Originally Posted by TheCane [View Original Post]
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08-11-20 15:13 #73
Posts: 6413Ruskie?
Who will take the Ruskie COVID-19 vaccine? Not me!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/11/europ...ntl/index.html
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08-11-20 01:27 #72
Posts: 767I feel at the moment all countries are hoping & praying for a vaccine to make it all better. How sensible this is will probably be known by the end of the year. My worry as an over 60 yo is will any vaccine be effective for my age group, as it seems an accepted fact that older bodies simply don't respond as well to vaccines in general.
And, a lot of people seem to have the strange mindset that 2021 has to be better simply because it won't be 2020!
I wrote off any chance of o/s travel in 2020 months ago, and I'd be happy now with any time in 2021. Like our moderator, my sex life in retirement revolved around travelling abroad, and without those trips to look forward to, it sucks.
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08-10-20 19:38 #71
Posts: 3205I think where testing will have more of a role or should have more of a role is about whether there is a need for isolation. If you test negative and are afebrile and without viral symptoms, I see no need to isolate for 10 to 14 days.
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08-10-20 19:11 #70
Posts: 3205Originally Posted by ShoesAndSocks [View Original Post]
They have covid 19 testing now that is rapid and is about 85% accurate. Some are up to 95% accurate but that is on the positive end. The false negatives are very problematic, and I doubt they will be solved. The antibody testing is even worse.
The real development about Covid and air travel have been these two anecdotal reports:
Here is someone with Covid who wore a mask and didn't infect anyone on his flight because he wore a mask: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/192/15/E410.
Then you have the opposite here, a guy who kept his mask off for over an hour and did get infected when people who wore masks did not: https://fortune.com/2020/07/28/unmas...r-rules-masks/.
Personally, I think the decision to ban air travel was made in haste and is silly now that all areas of the world are showing signs of Covid spreading domestically. Even banning people from high risk areas makes little sense to me unless your native population is Covid free or near Covid free.
Given that Peru and Colombia completely banned international travel and cases are going through the roof there right now, I see no evidence that banning air travel has had any positive effect while the ban has certainly had enormous negative ones to those working in the airline industries.
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08-10-20 12:35 #69
Posts: 6413Originally Posted by ShoesAndSocks [View Original Post]