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“This means that a traveller’s COVID-19 vaccination, test or recovery status, as evidenced by a valid EU digital COVID certificate, should be the key determinant.
I think it will continue to be the case that every country will make its own rules and these will change whenever they see fit to change them.These don't seem to be changes to regulations of the member states, yet. @Kathar1na should be along soon to explain!
These don't seem to be changes to regulations of the member states, yet. @Kathar1na should be along soon to explain!
This is not addressed at all in the Recommendation.I'm also hoping that there will be a way for those from the US and other countries without EU Digital Covid Certificates to convert their Covid vaccination certificates to an acceptable digital format to travel in the EU.
That would be ideal!You might as well hope that your own country joins the EU DCC system.
This new EU Recommendation says absolutely nothing about whether or not you can enter Portugal or Spain on a flight from the USA in the context of Covid-19 restrictions.Perhaps I am not understanding but it reads to me as if we, traveling in from the USA, can enter if we test negative. We plan on starting in Porto. Spain? I am not sure we can enter, as of yet.
Yes. That is our plan and a possible reschedule for Fall.as frequently as the various regulations and recommendations and suggestions and whatevers change, just work backward. Take your departure date, work back 30 days before and decide what you need to do to meet that specific requirement at that time.
I'm also hoping that there will be a way for those from the US and other countries without EU Digital Covid Certificates to convert their Covid vaccination certificates to an acceptable digital format to travel in the EU.
Probably not. In another thread @Kathar1na linked to a couple of apps that are used in Europe to read the QR codes on the EU digital certificates. I downloaded a couple of them, and they couldn't read the QR code that I have from my health care provider. The format wasn't compatible.I'm fortunate to live in a state (Louisiana) that has a digital record system so I don't generally carry my card with me - but am wondering if I will need it when I travel to France and Spain this spring, or whether the QR code in both my state app + Apple Wallet will suffice
Probably not. In another thread @Kathar1na linked to a couple of apps that are used in Europe to read the QR codes on the EU digital certificates. I downloaded a couple of them, and they couldn't read the QR code that I have from my health care provider. The format wasn't compatible.
These are a basic standard across the EU, but individual Member States can in the matter of these measures, instate their own measures outside this sort of baseline, whether more permissive or restrictive, particularly with regard to such third countries as the UK or USA etc.These don't seem to be changes to regulations of the member states, yet. @Kathar1na should be along soon to explain!
I think for pilgrims who want to walk in April, it's all just speculation or reading coffee sentences at the moment. The regulations in force change almost every day. No one can even begin to say what will apply in 3 months. I know this is difficult and unsatisfactory for pilgrims from overseas.Here are some recently published proposed Schengen regulations regarding Covid
Official: EU to Introduce New Individual-Based Travel Restrictions From February 1
Starting from February 1, the European Union Member States are advised to remove the current restrictions, which are based on the COVID-19 situation on the traveller’s country of departure and replace them with restrictions based on the traveller’s situation. On Tuesday, January 25, the EU...www.schengenvisainfo.com
I just finished the Camino Frances yesterday and just so you know, in Spain I was asked for my vaccination card at every hotel, restaurant, and albergue in the last 2 weeks. I was told by one of the hotels that if I wasn’t vaccinated, I could only stay if I went to get a PCR test. I don’t know if this is everywhere. In Madrid now and haven’t been asked, but on the Camino I was.I am reading this forum, often and closely, to figure out if we are going to walk the Camino Portugues'-as planned for three years now-(We were originally booked to fly out in April of 2020.)-leaving at the end of this March 2022. We have chosen to remain unvaccinated for myriad personal reasons and have remained COVID free-and, we test every time we travel. (Close family and friends who have been vaccinated have caught COVID and we have not--even after being with them. We believe we are immune. That is another story.)
I find this hopeful for us--if we test--and, we always do.
Perhaps I am not understanding but it reads to me as if we, traveling in from the USA, can enter if we test negative. We plan on starting in Porto. Spain? I am not sure we can enter, as of yet.
Watching and waiting to see if we need to reschedule or pack...soon.
Thanks to Ivar for this site and to all the Pilgrims who contribute-it is immensely helpful.
Be well and be sweet.
I just finished the Camino Frances yesterday and just so you know, in Spain I was asked for my vaccination card at every hotel, restaurant, and albergue in the last 2 weeks. I was told by one of the hotels that if I wasn’t vaccinated, I could only stay if I went to get a PCR test. I don’t know if this is everywhere. In Madrid now and haven’t been asked, but on the Camino I was.
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