As the global countries are in the process of reopening their borders, authorities have come up with a list of polices that keeps changing to allow travel into their territories. A range of entry restrictions are deployed across the borders like home quarantines for vaccinated adults or spending up to 3 weeks in government-authorized facilities including multiple tests along the way. Different countries have different norms and protocols and all of them are considering families as a single unit.

But parents have to get more clarity about how to cross borders of their destination countries with their young children. Till then, there’s little hope of a full recovery. Now-a-days people are getting desperate or intrepid to travel as a family and they have to think of the rules for their young ones. Most nations are imposing strict guidelines for the unvaccinated individuals who account more than one-fifth of the global population and the fact is there aren't sufficient vaccine shots for them yet. Travelling families have to borne this burden.

Hong Kong, for example, which usually tallies the highest outbound travelers in the world, has now some of the most stringent measures even against children passengers. Here, unvaccinated kids have to present a negative test, which is conducted in the last 72 hours of departure and even has to undergo a 21-day quarantine upon arrival in a government-authorized hotel. In the hotel too, they must take four additional tests.

Some countries have doing better than others, but the U.S has inconsistent rules. Here children are treated as unvaccinated. The families have to present reports of Covid-19 tests undergone no more than 3 days before they arrive, but can home quarantine with tests 3 to 5 days after travel. In Australia, kids under the age of 4 years are exempted from testing and children below 11 years age aren’t required to wear  masks on planes. european countries seem to be the most progressive: For example, in France, norms are same to both adults and minors travelling with each other.

The biggest infection threat in the prevailing pandemic times is the delta variant. Of all the Covid-19 variants, delta is the most transmissible. Research studies and surveys have suggested that the Delta variant is about 50 per cent more transmissible than Alpha variant, which itself is twice as transmissible as the original pathogen at the start of the epidemic. The Delta variant has now been detected in at least 111 countries, according to the World health Organisation.

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Delta spread: Travelling with young kids a big risk

Shaik Abdul Sammad

26/07/2021 10:02 PM