EU Travel Restrictions

We are about a week away from our trip to Europe, and both Italy and France are in the >300 cases per 100k people per day category. I did research all the travel restrictions currently enforced in Europe, and we can still travel without any COVID tests or quarantine if we are vaccinated. I hope our cheapo CDC white cards are sufficient.

Even though case counts are still high in Italy and France, the number of daily new cases is decreasing. Here are charts for both countries over the past three months.

The big hump for both countries is likely the Omicron BA.2 variant. In Europe, there was not really a break between the BA.1 spike at the beginning of the year, and the second spike. In the US, cases died down quickly but is on the rise again from BA.2.

This is just Los Angeles County so the y-axis scale is totally different. However, you do see an increases in the number of cases while it is clearly decreasing in Italy and France above. I am hoping that cases will continue to drop in Europe during the next week so we will be a bit safer on our trip.

I do feel a bit embarrasses that I am going to a fairly high risk area for vacation, while I am working from home due to the increasing number of cases locally.