Novak Djokovic will not be allowed to play in the U.S. Open in August due to his declining the COVID-19 vaccine – an unhappy reminder that the U.S. continues to discriminate ruthlessly against unvaccinated visitors.
Opposition MPs defeated a proposal by Emmanuel Macron's Government to extend vaccine passports for travellers entering France, raising major doubts over the President’s ability to pass new laws.
The fall of the corrupt Government in Sri Lanka should be welcomed. It's certainly more redolent of legality than what we've seen in the last few years, as civil rights were summarily stripped over an overhyped pathogen.
The Government of South Africa has announced the end of all Covid restrictions in what it describes as a "very historic day" and a "turning point since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the world and in the country".
The U.S. Government will today announce the end from Sunday of the requirement for people entering the country to test negative for COVID-19. No word, however, on ending the ban on the unvaccinated.
Coronavirus rules put in place by foreign countries are to blame for delays at major UK airports, the Chairman of Parliament's Transport Select Committee has said. Do the countries ever intend to lift them?
As the UK ends its remaining Covid travel rules and restrictions, here are other countries that got there first and to where UK citizens can now travel in the normal pre-pandemic way.
British holidaymakers will not be required to wear masks on British Airways and Virgin Atlantic flights following the Government's announcement that all Covid travel measures will end on Friday.
All UK Covid restrictions on foreign travel, including passenger locator forms and tests for the unvaccinated, are to be scrapped in time for families planning to go abroad for the Easter holidays.
The International Air Transport Association – which represents 290 airlines in 117 countries comprising around 83% of global air traffic – has called for the end of face mask requirements for air travel.
