Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Healdplace]

Watch Areas

Cheshire East

Cases 229 - up from 124. Total cases 16, 509.

Pop score up 60 to 4298,

Weekly Pop up 14 to 324.


Kent

Dartford

Cases93 - up from 83. Total cases 8878

Pop score up 82 to 7884.

Weekly Pop down 33 to 681.


Medway

Cases 179 - down from 180. Total 23, 047

Pop score up 64 to 8274.

Weekly Pop down 27 to 536.



Wales

Swansea


Cases 69 - up from 58. Total cases. 15, 760

Pop score up 28 to 6381.

Weekly Pop down 10 to 185.

 

[feedthegoat27]

I think its a good idea, but how will they know who’s had it ?

Bit of a grey area at the moment; do people get something official on completion of their 2nd jab?

Think it's only being rolled out initially against their ocean cruise product, but given they do a lot of river cruises and escorted touring then I'd expect to see it applied to these other trip types before long.

At the moment they are offering refunds to people who aren't/won't be vaccinated, but it looks like it will be a booking condition going forward.

As with any purchase, you'll tick the box to agree to the Ts and Cs, and if you rock up at the cruise terminal and can't prove you've had the vaccine then you'll likely be thousands out of pocket with little to no chance of recovering the money.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Saga have become the first major tour operator to announce they will only accept clients on trips/cruises that have had both jabs of the vaccine.

Looks to be a sensible decision given their target demographic (even if they have tried to model themselves more towards that 50-60 market in recent years)

I imagine a number of other companies will follow suit, particularly ones that deal in escorted touring and trips of that nature.

A quick glance at comments on the Saga FB page is quite depressing, although I'm sure they are the vocal minority against this decision.

I agree about the jabs mate. By the time of Easter bookings, over 60s should have had the chance of 2 jabs

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Is it giving the ages of those who have passed away recently?

 

[kaz7]

English always helps

 

[ayrshire_blue]

English always helps

Sorry. Had attached a screenshot of the English translation, not sure if it worked or not. However, since then, he's tweeted again in English. So here it is.

 

[kaz7]

Sorry. Had attached a screenshot of the English translation, not sure if it worked or not. However, since then, he's tweeted again in English. So here it is.

Thank you lovely

Could also be because getting vaccinated puts you in the same place as loads of other people and you cant be too careful but can easily catch it

 

[feedthegoat27]

I agree about the jabs mate. By the time of Easter bookings, over 60s should have had the chance of 2 jabs

Yeah deffo.

It makes perfect sense for them to go down this route, and as mentioned I'm sure more will follow.

Saga only own 2 cruise ships, I think they only hold no more than 1000 passengers each (I work in travel so really should know this haha), they don't own or operate the megasize ships that can have up to 6k on board, so they shouldn't have any problems filling the cabins when their cruises restart.

This decision has undoubtedly ruffled a few feathers, and likely they might lose some long standing customers, but also they will likely gain some new customers drawn to them by this stance.

The social media comments are overwhelmingly negative but I think that's just the vocal minority spewing their tin foil hat shite and complaining about a violation of their hUMaN RIghTs.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Yeah deffo.

It makes perfect sense for them to go down this route, and as mentioned I'm sure more will follow.

Saga only own 2 cruise ships, I think they only hold no more than 1000 passengers each (I work in travel so really should know this haha), they don't own or operate the megasize ships that can have up to 6k on board, so they shouldn't have any problems filling the cabins when their cruises restart.

This decision has undoubtedly ruffled a few feathers, and likely they might lose some long standing customers, but also they will likely gain some new customers drawn to them by this stance.

The social media comments are overwhelmingly negative but I think that's just the vocal minority spewing their tin foil hat shite and complaining about a violation of their hUMaN RIghTs.

It’s a bad day for the vocal minority with Trumpy leaving the White House. I reckon the silent majority will be reassured by the vaccine requirement, like you wrote.

 

[blueparrot]

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Bit of a grey area at the moment; do people get something official on completion of their 2nd jab?

Think it's only being rolled out initially against their ocean cruise product, but given they do a lot of river cruises and escorted touring then I'd expect to see it applied to these other trip types before long.

At the moment they are offering refunds to people who aren't/won't be vaccinated, but it looks like it will be a booking condition going forward.

As with any purchase, you'll tick the box to agree to the Ts and Cs, and if you rock up at the cruise terminal and can't prove you've had the vaccine then you'll likely be thousands out of pocket with little to no chance of recovering the money.

You don’t get anything official at the moment as far as I know.