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LP_IBIZA said:
I understand the reasoning behind this but if you've paid for flights and hotel and then receive a positive test 72 hours before travel I wonder where hotels and airlines will stand with refunds etc?

I know some hotels have cancellation periods very close to the time of arrival or some are pay on arrival but I can't help but think in the 1-2 weeks prior to going away that you're going to be super paranoid about catching covid, particularly when in many cases you can be totally asymptomatic and then having to worry about cancelling/amending bookings!

I suppose it might just become part and parcel of the 'new normal' for the foreseeable but I do have concerns about testing before arrival!
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I imagine a consequence of all this will be a hike in holiday insurance prices maybe ?
 
LP_IBIZA said:
I understand the reasoning behind this but if you've paid for flights and hotel and then receive a positive test 72 hours before travel I wonder where hotels and airlines will stand with refunds etc?

I know some hotels have cancellation periods very close to the time of arrival or some are pay on arrival but I can't help but think in the 1-2 weeks prior to going away that you're going to be super paranoid about catching covid, particularly when in many cases you can be totally asymptomatic and then having to worry about cancelling/amending bookings!

I suppose it might just become part and parcel of the 'new normal' for the foreseeable but I do have concerns about testing before arrival!
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people traveling should get insurance that covers cancellation for COVID. I don’t think it should be down to the hotel.
 
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Not that we could have gone anyway but that is what put my girlfriend off a Caribbean trip this month - they required a negative test 72 hours before arrival and a negative test when you landed to be released from 'quarantine' - so almost double risky, 1) to get on the flight, 2) risk of infected between first test and landing and then being forced into quarantine for 10 days while on holiday.
 
The uk new cases seems to have settled at around 22k a day. But I'm wondering if this is more to do with capacity of the testing system. (Apparently it is only managing to test around 80-90k people a day. Number number of tests not same as number of people been tested ?‍♂️)

I know a few people who've got symptoms but decided not to go through the hassle of trying to get a test ans just staying at home instead.
 
stivi said:
france today: 60k cases and 800 deaths in one day.

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Apologies for being pedantic (and you may have meant this in your post) but I understand the 828 deaths were registered/reported in on that day (they didn't actually all die that on day), 430 of those were from care homes who had died over the last several days. Similar system as the UK where we report deaths registered each day (for which the actual deaths may have been spread over a number of preceding days or even weeks depending on how long it takes to register them).

Never the less, still not good as the 7 day average in France rose to 471 deaths per day.

Source...Reuters (France).
 
Day 5 in the Coronavirus house

Probably the worst I have felt so far, head and body ache bad, legs particularly so. Very lethargic and pretty horrendous dry cough. Temperature last night but still no fever. Worse than worst cold but not as bad as flu. For context I am 45 and an extremely fine specimen of a man

Mate is on day 8, a lot worse than me. Struggling to breath with intense chest. pain.

Daughter 16, day 5 from positive test, still no symptoms. Main problems are boredom and being annoying
 
Hally said:
Day 5 in the Coronavirus house

Probably the worst I have felt so far, head and body ache bad, legs particularly so. Very lethargic and pretty horrendous dry cough. Temperature last night but still no fever. Worse than worst cold but not as bad as flu
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Are you taking anything like ibuprofen,paracetamol or aspirin etc to help with it? (Like do with bad cold etc).

Let's hope it peaks soon.?
 
Hally said:
Day 5 in the Coronavirus house

Probably the worst I have felt so far, head and body ache bad, legs particularly so. Very lethargic and pretty horrendous dry cough. Temperature last night but still no fever. Worse than worst cold but not as bad as flu. For context I am 45 and an extremely fine specimen of a man

Mate is on day 8, a lot worse than me. Struggling to breath with intense chest. pain.

Daughter 16, day 5 from positive test, still no symptoms. Main problems are boredom and being annoying
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Pal of mine has just recovered from it. Said day 5 was the worst day. Symptoms match your to a tee, hopefully you turn the corner tomorrow like he did mate. Same age too ?

Hally said:
Day 5 in the Coronavirus house

Probably the worst I have felt so far, head and body ache bad, legs particularly so. Very lethargic and pretty horrendous dry cough. Temperature last night but still no fever. Worse than worst cold but not as bad as flu. For context I am 45 and an extremely fine specimen of a man

Mate is on day 8, a lot worse than me. Struggling to breath with intense chest. pain.

Daughter 16, day 5 from positive test, still no symptoms. Main problems are boredom and being annoying
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