A travel insurance provider that covers Coronavirus cancellations?

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I know that most travel insurance isn’t really worth the paper it’s printed on due to so many exclusions.

We have a European short break booked in April.

Is there any point in buying travel insurance now in case the country/area is quarantined (and if so who with)?

Or shall I just buy insurance the day before again like usual?!

There’s good advice on moneysavingexpert but a quick one to check out is if you can get it as an add on to your home insurance - it can often be good value and they’ll do it for the rest of your policy.

@Iflyaway please read my posts

You and the other thread that's started seem to think I don't buy holiday insurance.

That is simply not true.

For anyone who doesn’t see the point in buying it clearly has never been hospitalised in a foreign country. I spent 2 nights in a hospital in Spain and there’s no way it could have been avoided and the amount it cost my insurance provider was eye watering.
Maybe an obvious question but my annual policy expires July 1st and we go away July 19th. Do I need to take out another policy now or from July 1st to be covered in case of cancellations?

It's a bit pointless buying the day you travel. The cost is the same but you won't have been covered for any number of events that could happen before you travel. Including pandemic.

I bought annual cover last April, when I had a week and a short break booked in Aug and Oct. I went with the annual policy so it actually covers me up until a week after we are due to come back.

I've checked. Of course, it won't cover if we want to cancel just on the offchance of it being a problem, but if the official advice does become 'don't travel' then we are covered. Which is a relief as we are booked to go to (Southern) Italy in April.