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Nov 4, 2021 | 9:29 am

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Originally Posted by FlyingSloth

It's my first time being overseas since this testing requirement with instated late January, 2021. Just to confirm.. I'm a U.S citizen, who is fully COVID vaccinated.. I need to take a COVID test before I can fly back to the U.S?? It can just be the antigen test from any clinic, right?

If I were to test positive that means I cannot take my flight back home to the U.S?? Is that correct? I would need to stay in the country where I am (Turkey) until I am able to test negative?

This sounds a bit crazy to be honest.. especially since vaccines in the U.S have been available for many months to anybody who chooses or wants to get them. It sounds unbelievable that there is even a rule in place like this for U.S citizens still in November, 2021. I'm just trying to make sure I understand correctly.

Yes.

This just happened to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.

‘This could be my room for a few days’: Garcetti tests positive, isolates in Scotland

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The mayor, who is fully vaccinated, tested positive Wednesday in Glasgow, Scotland, where he had been attending a United Nations conference on climate change.

The mayor is “currently isolating in his hotel room in Glasgow” and has experienced “very mild symptoms,” Garcetti spokesman Alex Comisar said.

Garcetti is tentatively scheduled to return to Los Angeles on Nov. 13, according to a letter sent by his interim chief of staff to Council President Nury Martinez... He took a PCR test Tuesday in preparation for what had been a planned flight home on Thursday; that test came back positive on Wednesday morning, Comisar said.

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