Global travel set to resume in 2021, but vaccines are vital
Airlines are adding flights and filling out schedules in anticipation of increasing numbers of vacationers
Brussels/London — Even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage in many parts of the world, places that have successfully vaccinated a substantial share of the population are plotting the next step: how to let people start travelling again, whether for beach vacations or board meetings.
By the middle of the year, countries in the EU and beyond aim to issue vaccine passports that would let those who have been inoculated freely cross borders. Some places — Australia and New Zealand, for instance, and Singapore and Hong Kong — are coming together to create “travel bubbles” that allow citizens to visit without mandatory quarantines, and governments are drawing up lists of vaccines and tests they deem sufficiently effective to permit entry...
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