International entry requirements are still confusing. Here’s where to find answers.

International entry requirements are still confusing. Here’s where to find answers.

International entry requirements are still confusing. Here’s where to find answers.

November 3, 2021

If you’re headed abroad, you’re probably a little confused about pandemic entry requirements. So was Barbara Moss before she left for a recent Douro River cruise in Portugal. Did she have to show her vaccination card? A negative test result? If so, which one? And how about her return flight to the United States?

Moss’s travel adviser recommended that she check the State Department’s covid-19 country-specific information page before she flew to Lisbon. Portugal also publishes an official tourism website that has a page with the latest information on entry requirements, which Moss reviewed. But she still had questions, so she checked with her cruise line.

“Our cruise line’s website didn’t appear to have anything mentioning requirements beyond needing to be vaccinated,” says Moss, a retired interior designer from Arlington, Va.

3 Traveling Healthcare Workers on Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine

3 Traveling Healthcare Workers on Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine

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3 Traveling Healthcare Workers on Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine

February 25, 2021

As of February 25, more than 66 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the U.S., and just over 13 percent of the total U.S. population has received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to data from the CDC. It’s the shot we’ve been waiting on for nearly a year, but perhaps no group has been looking forward to the vaccine more than those on the front lines. We spoke with a doctor, a traveling nurse, and a nurse who escorts patients on medical care flights—all of whom consider themselves avid leisure travelers, and recently got vaccinated—about their experience, how getting the shot has impacted their jobs, and how it’s changing the way they think about travel.