Originally Posted by
HIDDY
On average 17000 people in the UK die from the effects of common flu every year....mostly oldies. I wouldn't be at all concerned about this virus unless I was travelling to certain areas of the world.
You are correct in that flu is common here but you ignore one important point... we have had flu jabs and while they do not guarantee that we won't get flu the jab does protect to a certain extent and if we did get symptoms then they are likely to be greatly reduced. There is no jab to protect against corvid-19 so to compare normal flu with corvid-19 isn't really appropriate
Originally Posted by
SKRan
All the flu season precautions are also good to protect you from Covid-19 and many other similar diseases. Washing hands, getting fresh air, avoid coughing people etc. We should do these things anyway, especially when travelling.
Your destinations are low risk. Unless some significant incident happens, they will be at similar risk as UK. Staying in doesn’t reduce the probability a lot, and comes with some financial loss.
Even mainland China is now categorised into risk based zones - for example Tibet is low risk because it only had 1 confirmed case and cured.
It isn't at all similar to the UK. The healthcare system in Albania, even in Tirana, is very poor and standards and availability of diagnostic equipment and testing facilities are also very poor. Staying in the UK may or may not reduce the likelihood of catching corvid-19 but it is massively better to be in the UK having contracted it than in Albania!!!
Also, staying at home, with very limited exposure to the general public and an exposure that can be controlled is a completely different ball game to exposing ourselves to the general public on public transport such as an international airport.
We are reviewing whether we cancel Tirana. It is a FT do unfortunately
