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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin today said direct flights and tourism between the two neighbouring countries should resume as soon as conditions allow it.Anastasiades flew to Israel early Sunday for a one-day working visit and he is also meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the afternoon....

Read the article and chat about it below...

I did chuckle when I read this.....I have a hunch that flights to and from many countries will resume when conditions allow it

The Aquila wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:49 pm I did chuckle when I read this.....I have a hunch that flights to and from many countries will resume when conditions allow it

Me too. Talk about stating the obvious!

They are talking about allowing passengers that have had the jab flying. not the general public

Tanny wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:17 am Are the general public not the passengers.

Yes they are, but this agreement is for the passengers that have HAD the jab, not for passengers that have not had the jab.

It will be a shot in the arm for tourism.

The UK is flip-flopping on whether to have any kind of Vaccine Passport - likely waiting for Sevco or another ‘friendly’ company proposing i9t. To them for billions…. Cynical? Yes, but with due cause…. Meter is running at over £20bn in handouts to friends of the party!

And when actually does the fighting start, or did I miss that bit?

In the UK you are given a card which states that you have had your vaccine, and on which dates they were given.

Surely this should be enough to qualify you for flights.

Jackie

PhotoLady wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:47 am And when actually does the fighting start, or did I miss that bit?

Yes that was an interesting typo!

I thought you'd done it on purpose as a kind of test

PhotoLady wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 12:15 am I thought you'd done it on purpose as a kind of test

No, it must have been like that on the original In cyprus page.

No probably outside a bar, in Agia Napa,... when they reopen.....

Dee

mouse wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:10 am with the importance of being vaccinated applied to visitors coming to Cyprus I asumme it means they can no longer be covid carriers ?

Unfortunately no. Having the vaccination doesn't stop you getting Covid, just lessens the symptoms for you so you can still carry and spread the virus even though you yourself are showing no symptoms.

So until the majority of people are vaccinated in each country, it seems PCR testing will still be a thing.
It seems the vaccination magic number is 70% of the population.

PhotoLady wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:47 am And when actually does the fighting start, or did I miss that bit?

mouse wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:04 am So ensuring tourists from Israel are vaccinated won't prevent them bringing in corona !

Exactly!
Similar to the flu jab. It doesn't mean you can't still catch the flu virus transmitted by someone you have come into contact with, it just means you have the antibodies to help to fight it off so you won't become as sick as you would if you hadn't been vaccinated.

The vaccine isn't a cure for Covid.

Happy in Cyprus wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:27 am But it's the only game in town...and has been shown in the UK, does greatly help bring down the spread of the virus, hospital admissions and deaths.

Nobody has contested that. But many people believe it's the final solution when really, it's only a beginning of many more annual jabs.

So it seems that in addition to my usual annual flu jab, There'll be another one to prime my anti bodies against whatever the prevalent strain of Covid is which is around.

Dee

I don't think Cyprus has much choice unfortunately, Mouse due to main income is from foreign tourism.

Pretty much anywhere in the same position such as the Canary Islands and the Balearics are also looking to get tourists back as soon as possible.