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How to stay away from COVID-19 on your next holiday vacation

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If you want a holiday from the pandemic, speak to Ron Scharman. It turns out there are verified methods you can prevent COVID on your up coming journey, and he is delighted to notify you about them.

For his 3-7 days European getaway in March, he aimed for the countries that took COVID significantly. “I picked nations where by the constraints are the tightest for entry,” describes Scharman, the CEO of FlyWithWine, a specialty luggage firm based in San Francisco.

That meant expending time in sites like Austria, which just lately introduced a vaccine requirement for its populace, and France, which has locked down for the duration of the omicron surge.

“To me, this is about as harmless as you can hope,” he adds.

A greater part of tourists (54%) say that in 2022, they will decide a destination known for potent COVID-19 protection protocols, in accordance to the most up-to-date Expedia Journey Outlook. A little bit fewer (48%) are selecting a spot with reduced COVID-19 circumstance counts.

But how do you do this? To steer clear of COVID on your subsequent family vacation, you have to study the maps, overview the destination’s COVID procedures, and choose the most secure accommodations.

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How to discover a COVID map

You can come across destinations that are a lot less possible to leave you contaminated. Jack Plaxe, a senior guide with Guidepost Options, a international protection consulting and investigative agency, has a checklist of web sites he opinions just before creating vacation strategies. He refers to this as collecting ‘pre-departure intelligence.'”

They include things like the Centers for Disorder Command and Prevention’s Traveler’s Overall health web site, which lists 244 global locations, each and every with an affiliated COVID-19 well being rating. “There is also a color-coded map that shows the COVID-19 hazard by place,” he suggests. 

Plaxe also checks the Condition Department’s website, which has a site with COVID-19 details, which includes nation-unique needs for entry, screening, and isolation intervals. And if scenarios

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Windsor woman describes vacation gone wrong after contracting COVID-19

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Don’t travel internationally unless you think you can handle being alone with COVID-19, says Windsor resident Tracy Kell, whose romantic getaway to Cuba turned into an ordeal.

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Jan 14, 2022  •  4 days ago  •  3 minute read  •  17 Comments

Tracy Kell (right) of Windsor with her husband Joel Morris (left) in Varadero, Cuba, on Dec. 31, 2021. Photo by Tracy Kell /Windsor Star

If Tracy Kell could go back in time a few weeks, she’d probably advise her past self to cancel her trip to Cuba.

The 43-year-old Windsor resident has been sharing her disastrous travel experience after she fell ill with COVID-19 while on a romantic getaway with her husband.

“Hindsight is 20/20, of course,” said Kell, now back home and given the all-clear by her doctor and Health Canada.

“I don’t blame Cuba by any means. I just think I was too eager to go on a vacation. I felt safe. We’re both double vaccinated. But with all the uncertainty …”

Kell trailed off as she reflected on the ordeal that started her new year. “There’s no rulebook for what you do if you’re in Cuba, or the Dominican Republic, and you get COVID. You’re kind of on your own.”

Parents of two, Kell and her husband planned their vacation months ago: They try to make a trip to the resort community of Varadero every year.

Tracy Kell (left) and her husband Joel Morris (right) at their home in Windsor on Jan. 14, 2022.
Tracy Kell (left) and her husband Joel Morris (right) at their home in Windsor on Jan. 14, 2022. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star

“We just go to relax,” Kell explained. “It’s like our kid-free time.”

They arrived in Cuba on Dec. 30, with their return flight booked for Jan. 6.

But the day after their arrival, Kell started noticing a sore throat. That evening, she became feverish.

“Then it got pretty bad. I don’t remember much from that night,” Kell

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