Right a bit of good news here re travel (I saw this & thought of you lot)
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/covid-travel-news-green-list-holidays-usa-europe-restrictions/
Covid risk on flights 'less than 0.1%', real-world data reveals
Your chances of being exposed to Covid-19 on a flight whereby every passenger has tested negative is less than 0.1 per cent, landmark research has shown.
The study, which has been running since December 2020 on transatlantic flights with Delta Air Lines, indicates that a single PCR test performed on all passengers within 72 hours of travel was enough to drastically reduce the risks of transmission on board.
The conclusion was that at a time when the average community infection rate was at 1.1 per cent, the rate onboard a flight was only 0.05 per cent when passengers had been screened for Covid in advance.
The airline's chief health officer Dr Henry Ting stated: “When you couple the extremely low infection rate on board a Covid-19-tested flight with the layers of protection on board including mandatory masking and hospital-grade air filtration, the risk of transmission is less than one in one million between the United States and the United Kingdom, for example.
“These numbers will improve further as vaccination rates increase and new cases decrease worldwide.”
He added: “This real-world data – not simulation models – is what governments around the world can use as a blueprint for requiring vaccinations and testing instead of quarantines to re-open borders for international travel.”
Cheers.