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Last week the Tanzanian president said that vaccines may be part of a foreign plot to spread illness and steal Africa’s wealth.

At some point may be some countries will allow movement but it will probably be too little to save Christmas travel for many tens of thousands of people.

The tourism minister of Thailand, has announced that the virtual closure of its borders to overseas visitors has been extended to 31st March 2021.

According to Professor McKee of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, holidaymakers are to blame for the upturn in coronavirus cases.

The obvious thing for it to do would be to extend its protection on vouchers issued up until just after Easter

Science drives my thinking too and my thinking is I am too confused by all this creation of confusion to do anything about travelling at all.

Either you want visitors in which case you have to make travel and entry a little easier or you refuse entry to visitors for a bit longer.

When we last conducted this survey at the end of May, the response was so significant that other travel and news publications ran the story.

But from now on it has become doubly important that you check your policies to make sure that you are covered for at least the following which all related to the coronavirus;

IATA believes that testing all airline passengers would grow passenger confidence and thus bolster international travel which at present is 92% down on 2019.

Politicians have to find a way to marry the movement of people at the same time as protecting them from the pandemic.

Do you remember the good old days when you booked a trip and an hour after landing you had your feet up on a sun lounger?

The good news is that Sweden has been taken off the quarantine list so you can now travel there without the need to self-isolate

So far British holidaymakers have really only been considering the rules imposed by the UK and the devolved nations. We need to start watching the reactions of other countries to what is happening in the UK.

The problem is that there are more than one test so make sure you get the correct one otherwise you might be placed in quarantine

In many ways, Portugal could turn out to be a winner for tourism over the next few months.

The opening date has been postponed again but this time no future date has been suggested.

The big news of the week, as if I need to tell you, is that as of 4am tomorrow, you will need to go into a 14-day quarantine on returning from France, Malta and the Netherlands and the Turks & Caicos Islands.

What I do question is the role played by the holidaymaker.

Our weekly catch up of how the virus is affecting countries we can visit

As we foretold earlier this week, each Friday for the next few weeks Just about Travel will look at some favourite holiday destinations overseas. The purpose is to see whether the number of cases of COVID-19 is increasing and thus might be liable to being placed on the UK government’s “don’t travel” list. The measure we are using is the 14-day cumulative number of COVID-19 cases per 100 000 as revealed by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control website (https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea. We could talk
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Some medical experts have urged people to use their own transport rather than public transport so what’s a person to do?

Now that Britons are free to travel to Greece what might we expect?

The idea is that we travel safely to return safely and not to spend time in clinics, medical practices or hospitals because we thought we could never catch the destructive coronavirus.

The Australian tourism minister yesterday said that the Australian border might stay closed until next year for short term visitors.

I have talked myself around to saying there will be a summer international tourism season but It might exclude places such as those where the numbers are still increasing.

How does tourism develop after the virus yet not plunge the world into a second wave?

What B&B, guesthouse and hotel in the UK can call itself one of the best if it has no Marmite on the breakfast table?