Opening Roadmap

The Global Travel Taskforce will give an update on April 12 on whether international travel can happen from May 17. In any case, there are still many unknowns: will other countries be willing to open their borders? Will they require travellers to be fully vaccinated first? And will there still be testing and quarantine hurdles to resolve?

Reopening depends on four tests: whether vaccination uptake continues at an accelerated pace; evidence showing that vaccines are effective; that infection rates do not cause increased hospitalisations; and that risk assessment is not altered by new variants.