Back in 2022 and 2023 when Covid travel restrictions and vaccine passports were all the rage Dr Roger Watson published his country-by-country guide. Now, in 2025, he takes a look to see if any are still at it.
Dr Roger Watson makes his first trip to China since Covid and finds some surprises, including a society less visibly scarred by lockdown than the UK and a senior nurse who says she was never required to wear a face mask.
New Zealand’s Government has awarded 'damehood' to its former PM Jacinda Ardern for “leading the country through the Covid pandemic” – despite deaths currently running 25% above average.
The World Health Organisation and the European Union yesterday announced their collaboration on global digital vaccine passports at a joint press conference in Geneva.
A further 37 countries have dropped vaccine requirements for visitors in the past month, as summarised in this update to our list of all 195 countries in the world and their travel requirements.
Check out our freshly updated list of all 195 countries in the world and what their current requirements are for visitors including vaccination, testing and quarantine requirements.
Returning to Genoa in Italy and Maribor in Slovenia, Dr Roger Watson finds two countries at very different stages of their recovery from pandemic attitudes and habits.
China is to resume issuing visas to foreign tourists for the first time since the Covid pandemic broke out three years ago as the country moves back to normal.
Check out our freshly updated list of all 195 countries in the world and what their current requirements are for visitors including vaccination, testing and quarantine requirements.
Does the policy of requiring Chinese arrivals to have negative test make sense? If we don’t trust the data coming out of China, how can we trust the test used before Chinese travellers are allowed to board planes?
