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Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

November 19th - Jabs For Journeys

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

The Independent

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

3.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Simon Calder navigates through the world of Covid passports and what you need to do travelling abroad, following two huge announcements that might have slipped past many people. Simon takes you through what documents you need to show, which countries are looking for evidence of booster shots and what the NHS app shows.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

At Cabri, we know everything in life is better shared.

0:03.5

So we're giving up to 50% off Merlin UK attractions

0:06.9

when you buy participating packs of Cabri and Cabri biscuits.

0:10.6

So who will you take?

0:12.0

We're taking Mr Patel because he used to be an actor

0:15.6

and could probably scare everyone in the dungeons.

0:18.8

With days out at the London dungeon, the London Eye, and more.

0:22.6

Grab your participating pack of Cabri today. Visit fun.cabry.com.com. UK for teas and season

0:27.6

booking information.

0:34.2

Hello, I'm Simon Calder, welcoming you to my independent travel podcast, bringing you the latest news on travelling,

0:41.3

whether you're just dreaming of a great escape, or actively making plans to get away.

0:48.5

Today, I'm going to be talking about Jab's four journeys because there have been two big changes. Of course,

0:56.5

this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly travel email. You can sign up at

1:02.1

independent.com.uk forward slash newsletters. There's been an awful lot of concern reaching me from people who were lucky enough to be vaccinated early on, relatively speaking, perhaps with their first jab in January or February, and with a second in April or May. Those people will find that if they want to go now

1:32.3

to Israel, well, they wouldn't have been allowed because Israel, more than any other country,

1:38.6

has been looking at the efficacy of vaccines and the way that that seems to reduce with time and therefore they have

1:47.0

said right we're not allowing anybody in who's had their second jab more than six months ago

1:54.3

we will allow boosters though and there's similar policies for austria where it's 270 days, nine months approximately, and Croatia, where it's a full year.

2:06.6

So how are you going to prove that?

2:08.3

Well, the big problem was that, well, I was told by pharmacists, and I absolutely cannot correlate this, verify it, that there were problems with the NHS app,

2:22.3

and that's why they couldn't show.

2:24.2

Finally, though, they are showing up, at least in England, and I've had many, many

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