Yeah, your still reading it wrong.
It literally says complementary dose (booster) 9 months after last required dose (dose 2 of the primary dose).
They're literally implementing the same thing as other EU countries albeit probably badly translated hence your confusion. It doesn't mean what you think it does.
Dont think so, I think it means 9 months AFTER last dose (3rd,4th,5th etc) - ie valid for 9 months only.
But I take your point, it could be a bad translation, hope so anyway.
I'm not sure how easier it can be explained to be honest. What you think it means isn't what it means.
It's in the first article you linked earlier sure.
"Since February 1, 2022, in order to continue to be considered as fully vaccinated, persons aged eighteen or over wishing to enter the national territory must have received a dose of complementary messenger RNA vaccine no later than nine months following the injection of the last required dose,” the French Ministry of Interior explains.
This means that all persons who have been vaccinated more than nine months ago are considered unvaccinated, and thus, need to follow the rules that are applied to those who have not received the required vaccine doses.
On the other hand, those who have already received an additional vaccine dose, also known as a booster shot, will continue to be able to enter France without having to follow strict entry rules, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports"
From the DFA on the France travel page
"These requirements can be evidenced by your EU Digital COVID Certificate. New EU-wide rules will come into effect from 1 February 2022, with a 9-month maximum validity period for EU Digital COVID Certificates based on a completed primary vaccination regime."
Considering it is, at the moment, not possible for anyone really to get a 4th dose even if they wanted, give it a couple of months and that will be fixed.
Spain - am I correct in saying, no vax is needed for travel?
I am having this debate with a determined anti-vaxxer, plans travelling this month,
says negative PCR test is enough.
So is it the case that if you get your booster more than 9 months after your first two jabs you are considered unwashed and need to go back to the start and get all your shots again?
Yes he’s correct you can travel on tests it’s 48hrs before arrival for PCR or 24hrs with antigen test, that’s part of DCC
The anti vaxxers won in the end.
No
So the booster can be taken at any time AFTER 9 months have expired since the initial jabs and make everything valid for travel again?
Yup that's it as it stands today
Thank you for that.
Flying in Stockholm today and I've never seen Dublin airport so packed, a good 45 minutes to get through security.
Posting this via the WIFI on SAS airlines with my phone charging, could get used to this.
Good to see. And non-budget airlines are certainly upping their game with respect to their service
I can’t help but feel a little sad though. I had cause to do quite a lot of essential travel through the whole of the Covid lockdowns, and walking through the airport with just a handful of people around was a unique experience and a pleasure that I’ll never experience again. Likewise with the ferries that sometimes had less than 5 cars
Is there any on-line calculator available to check validity of your vaccine cert since second dose?
Why do you need a calculator? It's 9 months minus 5 days or 9 months minus 6 days, if you had your second jab in May, July or December.
Put the date of your second dose in here and add 270 days.
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadd.html
Has anybody been to Switzerland recently? Are EU Covid certs accepted for hospitality or do you need to get a swiss cert.
I'm heading to New york in a couple of weeks. I've seen that instead of needing a test , if you have had covid in the last 90 days (which I did) you don't have to get tested once you have proof of your positive test and also proof of recovery from a healthcare provider. Has anyone done this recently and do they know do I need to get this off my gp or would the HSE recovery cert work for that?
I think its safe to say travel to Spain is very much back to normal
Does anyone think they'll drop the antigen test requirement to get into the US soon? Going in a few weeks with the family feel like I can't look forward to it knowing if any of us goes positive the day before the holiday is off!!
Switzerland is dropping almost all restrictions from tomorrow so you won't need a cert.
https://www.thelocal.ch/20220216/breaking-switzerland-to-scrap-covid-certificate-most-mask-rules/
There isn't any talk of it right now. I'd say there's no chance of it happening within a few weeks.
Make sure you have travel insurance that covers a positive test before departure.
Austria also announced today that they are relaxing rules with nearly all gone by start of March.
Germany is likely to follow and theres a meeting today between national and the 16 regional governments to agree a schedule of withdrawl of measures but it seems "Freedom day" wont be till March 20th.
The timing of the announcement by the Austrians might spur them on to agree on a more ambitious schedule as theres a strange synergy between what happens in Germany and Austria - they both watch what each other is doing and sometimes theres inspiration taken from the other.
From the Norway tourism page ...
No testing, no quarantining, no registration! As of February 12, 2022, all COVID-19 entry requirements have been lifted for all travellers to Norway.
So nice to see!
Switzerland are also dropping entry restrictions.
Health-related measures for persons entering the country are to be lifted on 17 February 2022. It will no longer be necessary to provide proof of vaccination, recovery or a negative test or complete an entry form.
https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/krankheiten/ausbrueche-epidemien-pandemien/aktuelle-ausbrueche-epidemien/novel-cov/empfehlungen-fuer-reisende/quarantaene-einreisende.html
Do you still need to fill in a PLF, to arrive in Ireland from UK?
Do you also still need to have vaccination proof?
Apologies if this has been asked recently, haven't been following the thread much since we more or less got our lives back. Am flying with Aer lingus Dublin to Brussels this week. It's just a brief two day trip. Aer Lingus have been pestering me to download this app, Verifly. But I have print outs of my PLF form plus most recent Covid cert. I was hoping to just check in online as you do with Ryanair and print out my boarding pass. I always prefer physical print outs. Does anyone know if that will be enough or if I really should download this app? It's a very early morning flight and it's my first time flying Aer Lingus post Covid. The last thing I want is hassles at the airport so thanks anyone who may have recent experience of this and can advise.
You can't check-in online without Verifly so if you want to avoid going to a desk in the airport Verifly is the only way around it.
Thanks VG31. But here's the thing. I was able to check in online without Verifly so I did and printed my boarding pass. So now I have a print version of everything. But then I downloaded Verifly and all it asked me to upload was the Covid cert and then I got the green tick. Is that ok so? I had hoped to also upload my PLF [it's Belgium] plus the boarding pass but could see no way to do that. Is there a way to upload the boarding pass or am I good to go? Thanks again.
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