Alice November
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- Lismonagan, County Donegal, R.O.I.
Right now there are mandates being put into place in some eu countries for traveling/crossing borders by air, train, car, etc. france and germany for example, where people must get an antibody test proving either natural immunity from having had Cov19 disease and rcovered, or prove through testing they have antibodies showing enough immunty from having been vaxed. The test is mandatory even for vaxed people to be able to cross borders. I think it is a blood test.
So it is causing a lot of problems for travelers who made arrangements prviously thinking that because they were Vaxed travel would be ok. I think neighbors have driven to the boarder twice in the past week, getting turned back returning home then packing and unpacking and making a lot of desperate phone calls to no avail.
Other countries are asking people for a Covid negative test within24 hours to be allowed into the country, for example Portugal. UK asks everyone to completely isolate for 14 days upon arrival at aCovid Hotel upon arrival into the country.
These mandates can change within hours, so traveling has become a complete nighmare.
Soon it won't be necessary to do a lockdown since the health passport eu citizens sre supposed to carry are becoming invalid in some places with the new Omicron suspected of being vax evasive. So there won't be anything but essential businesses open anyway and nowhere to go for anyone.
Everybody is still waiting for proof, but as we can see many countries are quick to try to protect it from spreading..
So it is causing a lot of problems for travelers who made arrangements prviously thinking that because they were Vaxed travel would be ok. I think neighbors have driven to the boarder twice in the past week, getting turned back returning home then packing and unpacking and making a lot of desperate phone calls to no avail.
Other countries are asking people for a Covid negative test within24 hours to be allowed into the country, for example Portugal. UK asks everyone to completely isolate for 14 days upon arrival at aCovid Hotel upon arrival into the country.
These mandates can change within hours, so traveling has become a complete nighmare.
Soon it won't be necessary to do a lockdown since the health passport eu citizens sre supposed to carry are becoming invalid in some places with the new Omicron suspected of being vax evasive. So there won't be anything but essential businesses open anyway and nowhere to go for anyone.
Everybody is still waiting for proof, but as we can see many countries are quick to try to protect it from spreading..
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