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Old Oct 16, 2020 | 7:43 am
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CharlotteC
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Originally Posted by Pelu
Not sure where you went on Italy that hundred times better organised than here, but I've actually experience the opposite. And numbers are unfortunately proving that. Sardinia was one of the biggest EU hot-spot, all disco club have been opened until 2nd half of August, social distancing was just a distant memory to allow tourism to flourish. Tests at the lowest of the entire EU for the whole summer.
Political decision, respectable from one POV as the country needed tourism/money like oxygen. But people were getting sick and they just became more and more after returning from hols.

RE 14 days quarantine; I see your point. Hence why the reference in my post above to political decisions. Although just as a reminder, it is indicated as the only effective solution along with mask and social distancing. Also, weekends trip during a global pandemic are not really the best thing to do unless strictly necessary (which I'm afraid it will eventually become the norm for trips to IT until a vaccine)

RE BA; they are already doing the right thing with extending indefinitely the option to cancel the trip in exchange of a FTV. Just wait last minute to see if they cancel the route, but the FTV will always be an option for your reservation.
I was in Verona, just outside of Florence and then Siena - all really good and well organised and definitely Covid friendly across the board from shops, cafes, restaurants, hotels, swimming pools, taxis etc and the Italians even found a stylish way of tying their masks round their arms on the rare occasions when they weren’t needed! Also Pisa Airport although busy was very good and well organised too
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