Posted on 06/28/2021 8:43:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Germany and France will today attempt to introduce a mandatory two-week quarantine for all British tourists travelling to the EU.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Emmanuel Macron have relaunched a bid to enforce a Europe-wide rule for UK residents travelling to any country in the bloc.
Under the proposed plans, even fully vaccinated holidaymakers would be forced to self-isolate for 14 days upon arrival.
Ms Merkel is pushing to designate the UK as a ‘country of concern’ amid rising cases of the highly transmissible Delta variant, which has spread across the entire country.
However, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta are said to be set on defying a blanket rule and implementing their own border policies, reported The Times.
From Thursday, the only European destinations on the UK Government’s ‘green list’ will be Malta, Gibraltar, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
The Balearic Islands of Ibiza, Mallorca and Menorca, along with the Portuguese islands of Madeira, have been added to the ‘green watch list’.
This means that if the data changes and infection rates go up, they could be swiftly moved to the amber category.
Several countries have already imposed their own policies, with Portugal introducing a 14-day quarantine period for unvaccinated UK tourists arriving on the mainland.
From today, Brits must show they were fully vaccinated at least a fortnight ago in order to avoid self-isolating. The new rules will last until at least July 11.
Meanwhile, just hours after Malta was added to the green list, it announced a fortnight-long quarantine for UK holidaymakers who haven’t received the jab.
A British Government source told The Times that Ms Merkel is looking ‘increasingly isolated’ in her Europe-wide bid, adding: ‘A lot of countries will think it’s their own decision and not one to be decided in Berlin.’
Boris Johnson is set to meet Ms Merkel at Chequers, his Buckinghamshire country residence, on Friday in the hopes of persuading her to back down.
A No 10 spokesman said the two leaders will discuss ‘deepening the UK-German relationship and the global response to the coronavirus pandemic’.
Conservative chairman of the Future Aviation Group Henry Smith, believes Germany and France’s efforts are ‘more of a political effort’ and less based on Covid data.
He told The Telegraph: ‘I think the EU probably sees trying to shut Britain out of international travel as being a competitive advantage to themselves, but I think that’s quite short sighted.
‘Good luck getting the Spanish Greeks and Portuguese to agree to that, because I think they will rightly look at the imperatives for their economy.’
“Please speculate about Phase 3.”
Dr Peter McCullough, MD said that he thinks that the real “load” will come with the boosters. Dr Judy Mikovits says that the big trouble will come for people who are exposed to wild corona viruses and/or take a flu shot in the fall
I have no speculation on it. No idea.
Both of those sound plausible.
doses administered, of the three, per 100 population, as of June 28:
#1 Britain - 113.48 - 44.5 million people have had a first vaccine dose - about 85% of the adult population - and almost 33 million have had a second.
#2 Germany - 86.9 - 44,363,821 people have received at least one dose (53.3% of total population), while 28,915,700 people have been fully vaccinated (34.8% of total population).[3] (July 17, wiki)
#3 France - 77.67 - 19.6 million people are fully vaccinated, and 32.7 million have had their first dose.
going back to pop figures, I believe England is the highest vaccinated/double vaccinated rate per capita and so would be the safest travelers of the three, as opposed to France, using pop figures, the less safe tourist.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1196071/covid-19-vaccination-rate-in-europe-by-country/
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55274833
https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Concern-as-Covid-vaccination-rate-for-first-jabs-drops-in-France-and-politicians-urge-people-to-book-slots
I agree as you said that low vaccination rate countries are wise to close their borders - including those with homogenous populations more succeptible to the virus. Which should include those countries which just don’t have “pre-hospital treatments”. More nations than not are limited to holistic medicines/plants and superstition, not to mention lack of money to purchase the same. Thailand is dealing with 100K infected foreign workers as well as their own folks, Indonesia is approaching India numbers with 20K cases a day, Malaysia with 4K a day, Bangladesh is on military lockdown with 1M infected. Fiji gambled and was hit in April of this year, with 4,000 cases and 21 deaths since, spiking to 300 cases a day in a population of less than a million. The Cook Islands, in a travel bubble with NZ, was hit just after, bringing the total of countries infected to 220.
Of the ‘top ten’ vaccinated countries, India barely makes the list at 3% vaccinated, well below #9-Mexico. The rest are all western nations. Given all this, there doesn’t seem to be much logic in banning fully vaccinated Brits from the EU, unless there’s an issue in the EU that the EU isn’t admitting to.
https://healthcareglobal.com/top10/top-10-countries-most-covid-19-vaccinations
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