Will non-essential international travel resumes after the 19/07 ?

[Flapflap1974]

So I can finally see my family ! Bojo didn’t mention it.

Anyone thinking of a Cornish holiday rather than risk foreign travel....

inews.co.uk/news/covid-travel-staycations-cornwall-ten-fold-increase-covid-infections-variant-cases-1055999

Boris the fucking idiot.

@jasjas1973

Anyone thinking of a Cornish holiday rather than risk foreign travel....

inews.co.uk/news/covid-travel-staycations-cornwall-ten-fold-increase-covid-infections-variant-cases-1055999

Boris the fucking idiot.

Some posters have been saying that Cornwall before the boris effect was really packed because of half term so many of the cases will be more a half term effect rather than boris

@Watapalava not isolating your kids if it is required could lead to ££ fines. My understanding is currently there's a medium to high chance of the Covid police paying a visit after returning from an amber country.

Some posters have been saying that Cornwall before the boris effect was really packed because of half term so many of the cases will be more a half term effect rather than boris

Holiday makers go all over Cornwall and yes they have also seen increases but not on the scale of the G7 area.

Its far higher than Bolton ever rose too.

@jasjas1973

Some posters have been saying that Cornwall before the boris effect was really packed because of half term so many of the cases will be more a half term effect rather than boris

Holiday makers go all over Cornwall and yes they have also seen increases but not on the scale of the G7 area.

Its far higher than Bolton ever rose too.

Also because there are barely any cases in Cornwall (they were saying yesterday in another thread that it was around 30 cases the day before ) so it’s normal that a few cases spike it Looking into the data it spiked before g7. More around half term.

kids wont be expected to answer phones or the door

certainly not without an adult present

i instruct my dds never to answer door when home alone and they're 13&14

adults are not required to isolate if rules go through - thus policing kids will be impossible

i expect rules wont apply to kids given all adults vaccinated and risk to kids almost non existant

Its a bit off topic but cases in st Ives/Falmouth are over 500 per 100k.

Now where was the G7 held again? Devon & Cornwall police warned about 5000 mainly unvaccinated police coming down.

What it does show, if we needed reminding, is that travel ain't good in a pandemic.

I think the St Ives problem is a combination of half term and G7. St Ives was manically busy over half term- I was there a few days. All the restaurants were to capacity and tight packed queues for everything from toilets, pasty shops, souvenir shops, chip shops, beaches everything were the norm. The narrow Main Street (Fore St) that all the shops are on was impossible to social distance.

It’s no surprise they have high numbers- I just feel sorry for the locals who struggled with the tourist invasion pre-Covidworld, it must be quite scary now especially for the elderly ones.

The rules have changed for the worse on DH's home country this week. We have arrangements for the start of August, but now despite double vaccination we will be expected to quarentine for the first 5 days plus paying out the £££ for umpteen PCRs for 4 which we'd already accounted for. I'm not spending 5 out of 7 days holed up in a basic accomodation with an autistic child (plus lively sibling). The accommodation was chosen for its cancellation policy and proximity to family.

I'd be a naeve idiot to take for granted that MiL will be alive to visit again in any other year. 15m not leaving the house has been a disaster for her independence and she's aged years and is now in very poor health at a rather advanced age. Covid or lockdown, either way her longevity has been significantly compromised.

I desperately hope that the rules relax on 19th July. She was too terrified to see us last year when travel was easier.

@Watapalava my kids are 17 and 16 and they do answer the door. In any case if you have an 8 or 5 year old who are supposed to be quarantining and the door doesn't get answered because you were out, you'd probably get a referral to social services.

This is a daft exchange tbh. If children are expected to quarantine but double vaxxed parents are not, it's obviously not going to work.

Children included in plans for quarantine-free travel from amber list countries, ITV News understands

www.itv.com/news/2021-06-22/covid-government-working-on-plans-for-quarantine-free-travel-from-amber-list-countries-matt-hancock-says

Anyone like a guess when the new plans for Amber Countries might come into effect? I couldn't spot any hints in the various reports.

I am hoping to go to France next month. We will be going in our own car by ferry, staying self catering so hardly a Covid-risky holiday. If you are fully vaccinated you don’t need any reason to enter France, just need a negative pcr or lateral flow (antigen) test. Under 18s can accompany fully vaccinated adults without further restrictions and under 11s don’t need the entry pcr/antigen test.

Coming back to the U.K. if France stays Amber is the crappy bit. 2 x pcr tests (at inflated private cost) as well as having to self isolate for 10 days.

@MissyB1

Anyone like a guess when the new plans for Amber Countries might come into effect? I couldn't spot any hints in the various reports.

I read end of July maybe, I'm flying back from Spain on the 5th of august so would be good!

I think this is looking less likely

We are booked to travel to Spain first week of August and have just been told by Easyjet this morning that our outbound flight is cancelled!

We booked it over 6 months ago and now we find ourselves scrabbling around looking at super expensive flights with BA

Almost lost the will to travel abroad now!