Travelling abroad and vaccination
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"They say that each health authority will work out how to roll it out, we are in Tayside HA, who yesterday showed on local TV the first person to get the new AZ vaccine in Dundee an 82 year old man. Dundee is Tayside HA so how come they miss out all those in the over 85 age group"
we had similar but i think it depends on circumstances, the person shown on our news was an 82 year old but he was having dialysis treatment 3 times per week.
My daughter is part of the chain gang putting this stuff into our arms, and she says that from what she has seen all seems to be fair, however, she thinks our first priority should have been school teachers, vunerable parents of school children etc so that we stood a chance of getting kids back to school asap, she reckons this exercise, approx 1 million teachers could have been done within 1 week, but i guess that is a discussion in another place.
for me i will not travel overthere until we have had both vaccines, at home maybe if we could travel home quickly, but just now nobody is going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
Daughter reports snow in Murcia this week
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That's the same as Scotland A&J
The problem we seem to be having is its not being done.
MIL is 91, she has Parkinson's and lives in a care home. None of them have been given the vaccine yet.
However in Dundee,same HA they have started on those in group 3. Just doesn't seem right.
I'm not one to knock the NHS but they need to get the distribution and ability to get the jab evened out. Its not right that those over 90 and with health problems are still waiting while those younger are being given theirs.
Unfortunately the FM is great at talking not so great at doing.
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They should offer you a choice of dates, CY, or at least that's what's been happening here in S Cumbria.
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Private eye hospital, so it probably falls outside the criteria. Not that I was aware of it anyway.
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I think the pledge was for a Covid Swab test, not a vaccination, before a hospital appointment, which is what happened to me.
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News today says Scotland have given the highest percentage per capita of jabs.
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With a small population is easier to give a higher percentage the vaccine.
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Got my annual travel insurance policy renewal from LV today. Pleasantly surprised that the only new exclusion is cancellation in the case of a pandemic arising from government/travel provider imposition. All other CV scenarios still covered e.g. medical expenses if diagnosed with CV abroad, cancellation if tested positive & unable to travel and emergency repatriation if FCO advise return to UK. Could have been worse.
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After todays announcement re needing corvid tests before you enter the UK, individual tests to enter most countries in the EU, vaccinations for your pooch, green cards for car and possibly caravan, comprehensive travel insurance to cover covid, new government health card, visa's, etc beginning to wonder if a trip overthere will be worth it.
As things stand you will have to factor in an additional weeks holiday to ensure you can get tested, and employ an admin assistant to ensure you have all bases covered.
I see hauliers are exempt from the corvid tests, any chance tugging a 7.3m caravan will classify me as a haulier ?, .
Maybe raise the white flag for this year, anybody want to buy a good second hand caravan
P.S. making sure you dont get nicked for outstaying your welcome
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This will be a summer in two halves.....
First half, waiting for jab 2 - probably keep you grounded until July,
Second half - waiting for destination country to reach a state of preparedness for you to safely travel there.
After that it’s all downhill to Christmas.....book early for Summer 2022!
As for the big white box....put it on a seasonal pitch and rent it out to staycationers - you won’t find a pitch on a touring park.
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"As for the big white box....put it on a seasonal pitch and rent it out to staycationers - you won’t find a pitch on a touring park"
Ahhh!!! am ahead of the game, stayed for 1 month last September on a very nice site in Devon in lieu of our trip to Spain, as we were leaving sent OH in to book same pitch for the whole of Sept this year...sorted
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Doesn't look like we will get to Lanzarote in March but still hoping to make it across the channel even if its got to be a shorter trip in the Spring.
Haven't booked a single site in the UK as I don't know where I want to go. Will sort something out at some point. We managed fine last year so fingers crossed we will this year to.
We more than likely won't get our first jab until March/April so if we are allowed to travel we might go between jabs if they are to be 12 weeks apart.
The changes announced today may well still be in place but equally they may not, we will cross that bridge when we get there.
On a positive note my 91 year old MIL has had her first jab
they are doing the over 80s,care homes and key workers0 -
So what you going to do about it, if you don't mind me asking?
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We are assuming/hoping that our first jabs might be at the start of March, and therefore second ones at the start of June. If that's the case we would go on our river cruise in May (assuming it's running and that France will take us!). But we do have the option to change to a later date within, I think, 45 days of our scheduled departure and this is what we'd do if necessary.
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Shouldnt worry too much about going overthere just yet, Spain in particular are as predicted a couple of weeks behind us in the Covid-19 race, and France are not a whole lot better
"The Spanish regions of Galicia, La Rioja and Cantabria became the latest to tighten coronavirus restrictions on Wednesday amid a spiralling national infection rate that officials have blamed on lax adherence to the rules over Christmas.
After a lull in contagion in late November, cases skyrocketed through December and into early January, doubling the incidence of the virus as measured over the past 14 days in just three weeks, to 454 cases per 100,000 people"
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I'm 59 and my lovely wife is 60, both without health issues. We have two trips planned, mid May & June in Holland and end of August & Sept in France. These were re-scheduled after not being able to make the trips in 2020. I very much doubt the first will happen as we will not have had vaccine and as such expect to be told we cannot travel. The second I believe will go ahead.
I think you have to plan, we need something to look forward to and keep our sanity. A lot of us have credit notes that need to be used in 2021, so no choice but to book. If we are not allowed to travel a replacement credit should be issued so we have lost nothing.
One gripe I have at present is how much ferry crossings have gone up. P&O on Dover Calais appear to be about 80% up.
Colin
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Yes we have ferry booked mid April Portsmouth/Cherbourg with a view to tugging down into Spain, fortunately our tickets on Brittany ferries are flexi tickets so should not be a problem to change yet again.
Interestingly both France and Spain are someway behind with their vaccination programmes which could also affect travel
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