Italy in April. Would you?

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

Now the whole country is designated as a place that requires self isolation if you visit and later feel unwell with symptoms that may be the Covid 19.
How likely is it that the advice will change to Do Not Go.

No

I know someone planning to go to Italy in April but expecting up to 2 weeks isolation when she's back.

By April UK could have similar % ill, so then both in "reduce and delay" phase rather than containment. UK went to "reduce" phase when we hit 6000 cases of swine flu in 2009.

Just NO

Are you going to Northern Italy?. Milan is now closed down if.you are flying.there? The lockdown now covers 16 million people ( since midnight). I'd check if where you are going is affected

If Venice is locked down, why wouldn't the port be?. I'd assume it was

My parents were due to spend the whole of April in Tuscany. They're not going and decided before northern Italy was closed down. Mostly because they would have to drive through the affected area to get there and didn't want to inadvertently infect the village where they stay. Lots of very elderly people live there and it's very isolated. They'll only be at risk if someone brings the virus in.

No
Especially if you can’t wfh afterwards and all self isolate

With the new extended lockdown area, I think Foreign Office advice is still only advising against travel to the ten original towns, rather than including the whole lockdown area - but if it’s locked down, you presumably can’t travel there anyway?

Here’s the FCO advice - I’m not sure it’s totally clear about whether the extended lockdown area is included in their “no travel” definition: www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/italy/health#coronavirus

It really matters in terms of whether our travel insurance would pay out! Altho the lockdown is currently until 3 April and we’re due to be in Venice on 7 April...

Argh!

I thick the FCO must be more bothered about keeping the insurance companies happy , what a shit show

Bear in mind many not-yet places are asking visitors from infected places to self quarantine

This is handled locally and isn’t
Going to be on a BBC website , but means we can’t visit where we planned as even if we bought new Flights the transfer airport (only a few cases) count as infected

I shudder to think of the
Economic impact this will have for italy

It is Sorrento we are supposed to be going to. So not in a lockdown area and few cases reported. Flying into Naples.

Dh was meant to be flying to Naples in late March. Has only lost flight money was easy to cancel hotels. Made it an easy decision.

FCO advice currently is it's still fine to go to Venice and Milan despite acknowledging it's in lockdown until April. Crazy but hopefully it will change later today though clearly been updated today, maybe to save insurers money. Check your insurance terms and conditions for 7th, mine wouldn't be paying out as FCO advice has to be in place 48 hours before though probably good chance of things getting cancelled for 7th.

www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/italy

Naples is where my kids have flown in from .

Cases are climbing there everyday. We still dont know what we are doing. My concern is they are fine, go back to school tomorrow. By Wednesday cases are high enough in naples to consider it a dont travel area. Then we have to isolate them and anyone they have been near.

Personally, I would look at of I can afford to move the holiday.

My flights to Venice are the 4 th April...this thing is getting weird a whole month could change everything.

I'm not making any decisions about anything yet.

My DDs school are still planning on sending nearly 50 pupils on a skiing trip to Italy on 2nd April. Going by coach rather than flying so looking at a 24hr journey each way cooped up in a vehicle.
No plans as yet to cancel.

Mintyneb - where are they going? Some ski resorts were closed yesterday.

I dont know as DD isn't booked on the trip. I have just read though that some ski resorts are now on lock down.

Being utterly selfish I hope the trip is cancelled as DDs friend who she gets the bus every day with is meant to be going. DD has cystic fibrosis so I'm already more anxious than I want to be

My DD is due on a school trip to Sorrento in June and I messaged school about that as currently only deposits paid but they said government advice is to go ahead with all school trips and they are asking everyone to pay in full. I already have and it's not too bad currently there but getting jittery about it and presumably we will lose all the money if they cancel last minute unless FCO changes advise.
School also said the government had told them to keep school open if children at our school have coronavirus. Just hoping they warn us if a child comes down with it, we aren't especially high risk but lots of elderly neighbours.

I hope the ski trip gets cancelled minty was surprised Italy school ski trips haven't already been cancelled.

Looks like decision may be made for us... Italy has just announced increased measures, including formal lockdown of many more regions until early April..

(Pic from Twitter)

The only way to stop this globally is to stop international travel now, in fact it should have stopped a few months back. Some countries have stopped flights from the worse effected countries, we have not even done that. The response globally to this has been poor. When countries saw what was happening in China, we (I.e every country) should have taken steps to stop the spread in own countries. Free movement between countries just means the genie is out of the bottle.

The news in Italy is grim. Anybody willingly going there now should not be allowed back until it is all over. Harsh perhaps, but if we don't realise the severity of the contagion at this point we are making the situation worse.

I don't fear getting it, I am robust and not in a vulnerable group. But I worry about those who are vulnerable who will be the victims of this low key approach to international travel.

Since It's already in UK & spreading in UK community.... should all travel from UK to other places be stopped? Sounds like what PP recommended.

Especially seemingly unaffected countries. Should they all shut down their borders to any affected country.

Obviously part of me hopes that the advice changes to Don't Go and I can stop debating it and just get our money back.

If there was a country with no cases It would seem sensible to restrict international travel. But then what about imports etc. The subject is huge, the implications inconceivable.

All we can do it wash our hands and minimise our own personal risk, where we can. I can WAH a lot - I hope my employer says we can do it all the time until this is over. My main fear is public transport.

My office manager just flew there. I hope he doesn't come back.

What, ever?