Traveling in Times of Coronavirus

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Doc67 wrote: Fri Dec 25, 2020 8:24 pm
CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Fri Dec 25, 2020 5:57 pm 25 December 2020
Late on Thursday, Hong Kong announced it had extended mandatory hotel quarantine from 14 to 21 days for all overseas arrivals, after announcing it for UK arrivals earlier this week. Some UK travellers discovered the new measures only upon their arrival, reported RTHK.
Wait till our little Khmer friends see this and get their calculators out. The $2000 deposit might have to go back up to $3000
England have always been known to have some of the world's best doctors and medical staff on overseas virus and illness, so yes they did their job naturally, finding a new strain, then other countries following suit also found there to be different strains of the covid-19 virus, but it's the English people who are now paying the price.
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1h ago 18:05
Early evening summary

Travellers from South America and Portugal will be banned from arriving in the UK from Friday morning as a precautionary measure aimed at preventing the new Brazilian Covid variant from reaching the country, the government has announced.
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I asked the question of WHO some time ago, about the covid-19 virus and it's chance of mutation, and development of new strains, also a personal worry of the virus laying dorrment and undetectable in the person's body. The worry is it becoming drug resistant.
I suppose I will get the answers like everyone by the media.
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UK shuts travel corridors and requires negative Covid tests to enter
All foreign arrivals will also have to quarantine in toughening of measures in response to new strains
Peter Walker Political correspondent
Fri 15 Jan 2021 18.58 GMT

Boris Johnson has announced a dramatic tightening of the UK’s borders, with all international arrivals to be forced to quarantine as well as demonstrate they have had a negative Covid test.

After months of criticism of the government’s lax border policies, which Labour claimed were “costing lives”, the prime minister said he was tightening the rules to prevent new variants of the virus reaching the UK and safeguard the vaccination programme.
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Vietnam mandates 14-day quarantine for all foreign experts, flight crew
By Nguyen Quy January 20, 2021 | 05:15 pm GMT+7

All foreign experts and flight crew entering Vietnam will have to compulsorily undergo a 14-day centralized quarantine as Covid-19 prevention measures are strengthened ahead of Tet.

A government directive has stopped all short-term and home quarantine provisions. Earlier, allowances were made for some foreign experts and flight crew to be quarantined for less than 14 days or to be self-isolated at home or other accommodations, like hotels.

The new rule was announced at a Wednesday meeting by Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long, according to the ministry's portal.

Only special diplomats identified as such by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be exempt from the centralized quarantine rule, Long said.

The latest move comes as the country of 96 million people tightens Covid-19 prevention measures ahead of Tet, the Lunar New Year, which is Vietnam's biggest and most important holiday. The holiday usually sees millions of Vietnamese from within and outside their country return to their homes to welcome the New Year with traditional rituals.

This year, the Year of the Buffalo, peaks on February 12.

The Vietnamese government has also limited inbound flights from now until the Lunar New Year holiday in light of new variants of the novel coronavirus spreading fast in many countries. Only flights with approval from the Ministries of Health, Foreign Affairs, National Defense, Public Security and Transport can enter the country, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said earlier this month.

On January 5, the Vietnamese government had suspended flights from countries and territories with the new variants, starting with the U.K. and South Africa.

Vietnam suspended all inbound international commercial flights late March, but the government has been operating repatriation flights to bring home Vietnamese citizens stuck abroad amid the pandemic, and has allowed special flights to carry foreign experts and investors to the country.
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UK travel update:
All travellers entering the UK will be likely tested for Covid-19 soon. Travellers from high-risk countries will be placed in hotel quarantine.
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2h ago 09:05
Hancock set to announce compulsory tests for travellers isolating after arrival in country

Good morning. Ministers have been under pressure to toughen up border controls, particularly in the light of concerns about the South African variant of coronavirus, and today Matt Hancock, the health secretary, is expected to make a statement to MPs saying passengers arriving in the UK will have to get tested while they are self-isolating.

The government already requires people coming to the UK to have a negative Covid test 72 hours before they start their journey. The new tests - which are expected to be required on day two and day eight of isolation period on arrival - will be an extra requirement, not an alternative one.

And they will apply to all arrivals, not just people having to quarantine in hotels because they are coming from high-risk countries under the new arrangements coming into force next week.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/li ... c5b0043f87
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 6:18 pm UK travel update:
All travellers entering the UK will be likely tested for Covid-19 soon. Travellers from high-risk countries will be placed in hotel quarantine.
Latest:
2h ago 09:05
Hancock set to announce compulsory tests for travellers isolating after arrival in country

Good morning. Ministers have been under pressure to toughen up border controls, particularly in the light of concerns about the South African variant of coronavirus, and today Matt Hancock, the health secretary, is expected to make a statement to MPs saying passengers arriving in the UK will have to get tested while they are self-isolating.

The government already requires people coming to the UK to have a negative Covid test 72 hours before they start their journey. The new tests - which are expected to be required on day two and day eight of isolation period on arrival - will be an extra requirement, not an alternative one.

And they will apply to all arrivals, not just people having to quarantine in hotels because they are coming from high-risk countries under the new arrangements coming into force next week.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/li ... c5b0043f87
Only took a year, and still full of loopholes.

£1750 for a 10 stay, includes tests and transport but, according to the news, does not include food. That's going to get pretty expensive.
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Cambodia is not on the UK "red list".

Ten Years in Jail ?
Matt Hancock has announced a requirement for UK residents returning to England from 33 “red list” countries to pay £1,750 to quarantine for 10 days in government-designated hotels. The health secretary said on Tuesday those caught lying about their movements could be fined £10,000 or be jailed for 10 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... nate-covid

Travel bans to the UK
If you have been in or through any of the countries listed below in the last 10 days, you will be refused entry to the UK. This list of countries is sometimes referred to as the ‘red list’.

British and Irish Nationals, or third country nationals with residence rights in the UK will be able to enter the UK. They must self-isolate for 10 days on arrival along with their household. They cannot use the Test to Release scheme.

Angola
Argentina
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Burundi
Cape Verde
Chile
Colombia
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ecuador
Eswatini
French Guiana
Guyana
Lesotho
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Portugal (including Madeira and the Azores)
Rwanda
Seychelles
South Africa
Suriname
Tanzania
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Uruguay
Venezuela
Zambia
Zimbabwe
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/transport-m ... f-covid-19
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 5:46 pm Cambodia is not on the UK "red list".

Ten Years in Jail ?
Matt Hancock has announced a requirement for UK residents returning to England from 33 “red list” countries to pay £1,750 to quarantine for 10 days in government-designated hotels. The health secretary said on Tuesday those caught lying about their movements could be fined £10,000 or be jailed for 10 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... nate-covid

Travel bans to the UK
If you have been in or through any of the countries listed below in the last 10 days, you will be refused entry to the UK. This list of countries is sometimes referred to as the ‘red list’.

British and Irish Nationals, or third country nationals with residence rights in the UK will be able to enter the UK. They must self-isolate for 10 days on arrival along with their household. They cannot use the Test to Release scheme.

Angola
Argentina
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Burundi
Cape Verde
Chile
Colombia
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ecuador
Eswatini
French Guiana
Guyana
Lesotho
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Portugal (including Madeira and the Azores)
Rwanda
Seychelles
South Africa
Suriname
Tanzania
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Uruguay
Venezuela
Zambia
Zimbabwe
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/transport-m ... f-covid-19
This announcement of an "up to 10 years in prison" is a bizarre and much criticised heavy handed threat with zero chance of any court going anywhere near it. I actually doubt very much that ANYBODY will go to prison for this offense for any length of time. Hancock has made himself look like an idiot with this policy and I am surprised that the Cabinet and the AG signed off on it.

Lord Sumption, the retired Supreme Court Justice said, 'Does Mr Hancock really think that non-disclosure of a visit to Portugal is worse than the large number of violent firearms offences or sexual offences involving minors, for which the maximum is seven years?'

Former Attorney General Dominic Grieve today said courts would never impose the 10-year sentence, which he branded 'draconian'.

‘Ten years is entirely disproportionate, and I was trying to work out why this figure had been plucked out of the air’ Mr Grieve told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.


“This is a regulatory offence, and no regulatory offence I can think of attracts a 10-year sentence.

“The reality is that nobody would get such a sentence anyway, the courts are simply not going to impose it.”

Mr Grieve added: “To suggest that a 10-year sentence is going to result from a false declaration on a form on landing at Heathrow Airport is, I think, a mistake because it’s exaggerated, it’s not going to happen.”

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/hotel-quara ... onc-865764
https://theworldnews.net/uk-news/lord-s ... travellers
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wonder why the us with the highest rate of infections and deaths is NOT on the list?

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