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Drastic measures: This holiday destination does not want to allow tourists from Europe again until 2022

2021-02-01T04:50:31.634Z


Many popular holiday destinations are reluctant to open their borders despite the corona vaccine. A travel destination is not expected to allow tourists until 2022.


Many popular holiday destinations are reluctant to open their borders despite the corona vaccine.

A travel destination is not expected to allow tourists until 2022.

The approval of various vaccines gives many hopes that everyday life will finally return to life in 2021.

Travel experts predict that normal vacations could be possible again by Pentecost * - provided that the chosen destination allows tourists to enter the country by then.

Australia, for example, does not seem to have any plans to reopen its doors anytime soon - vaccines or not.

Corona pandemic: will Australia not allow tourists again until 2022?

The borders to Australia have been tight since March 2020, so that entry is only allowed for people with permanent residence permits.

According to the Foreign Office, tourist trips are generally not permitted, and corresponding visas are not issued

.

Due to this rigorous entry ban for foreign tourists, the government has managed to keep the number of new infections extremely low over a longer period of time.

As of January 17, only 19 new cases of Covid-19 were reported across the country, according to the Department of Health.

The Australian government’s chief medical officer, Brendan Murphy,

predicts that national borders will still not open to international travel in 2021

.

“I think that's the big question.

But I think the answer is no, "Murphy told ABC TV, as

news.au.com

reported.

Even if the vaccine were to vaccinate large parts of the population, that did not mean that those vaccinated could no longer transmit the virus.

"I think there will still be significant border restrictions for most of this year." Last year, it was Murphy who urged Prime Minister Scott Morrison to close the borders.

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Australia vacation: tour operators hope that borders will open in summer 2021

Tour operators have been hoping for some time to be able to welcome international tourists again from mid-2021.

The Australian airline Qantas is also preparing for the summer travel season.

As of July 1st, the company intends to resume international travel and is therefore already making bookings possible

.

Murphy warns of such rash steps, however: “I was very careful very early on, and I remember telling the Prime Minister that I didn't want to predict more than two or three months.

The world is changing.

So I think that at the moment we have this light at the end of the tunnel - the vaccine. ”

(Fk) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

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