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Travelers arrive for flights at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Nov. 30.

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  • National

Omicron spreads uncertainty about holiday travel and dampens recovery for airlines

The rapid emergence of the omicron variant of the coronavirus has many questioning whether they should rethink their holiday travel plans.

December 06, 2021
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By:
  • David Schaper
Poornima Peri, who lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her two sons. Aarit (left), now age 4, is India staying with his grandmother. His mother had planned to pick him up but "from March [2020] onward it was total lockdown," she says. Because of continuing travel restrictions, she fears it might be another year before they can reunite. "It's going to be really heartbreaking," she says.

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  • Global Health

Aussies Stranded Abroad Include Hundreds Of Kids, Folks Short On Cash

Pandemic travel regulations are frustrating parents whose children are visiting family in other countries and those who can't afford the cost of a ticket and a two-week hotel quarantine upon return.

July 04, 2021
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid
People wait at an exit gate at the Kolkata Airport Terminal. International air travel to and from India has been restricted as the country battles a catastrophic COVID-19 surge.

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  • Global Health

Trapped By India Travel Bans: Workers, Expats, Families ... An Aussie Cricket Team

Mounting COVID-19 travel restrictions are meant to contain the Indian variant. But citizens and visitors alike are feeling frustrated.

May 04, 2021
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  • Kamala Thiagarajan
People gather their luggage after arriving at Miami International Airport on a plane from New York earlier this month in Miami, Fla.

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  • National

Florida Officials Say They'd Fight Any Potential Domestic Travel Restrictions

Media reports suggest the White House is considering domestic travel restrictions to control spread of a new COVID-19 variant. Gov. Ron DeSantis say this would be unconstitutional.

February 11, 2021
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  • Greg Allen
President Biden is expected to sign off on new travel restrictions on non-U.S. travelers from South Africa, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Ireland and 26 countries in Europe.

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  • Health

Biden To Implement Travel Restrictions To Combat New Coronavirus Variants

Newly discovered variants of COVID-19 in South Africa and Brazil could make the virus more infectious and may decrease the efficacy of vaccines.

January 25, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
A worker wearing personal protective equipment disinfects the Holy Redeemer Church in Bangkok after a Christmas Eve mass. Thailand is one of many countries now seeing a surge in cases.

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  • Global Health

Why The World Is Seeing Some Of Its Most Extreme Pandemic Lockdowns

Even as the European Union began vaccine rollouts on Sunday, nations around the globe are instituting severe lockdowns and travel restrictions. Fear of the U.K. variant is a key reason.

December 28, 2020
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  • Jason Beaubien
A laboratory technician is pictured handling swab samples at a hospital in Mulhouse, France, in November. French officials confirmed the country's first case of the new coronavirus variant on Friday.

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  • Europe

French Officials Announce First Confirmed Case Of New Coronavirus Variant

The coronavirus variant is sweeping through the United Kingdom and prompting travel restrictions in other countries. France's first confirmed case is in a citizen who recently returned from London.

December 25, 2020
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  • Rachel Treisman
Passengers wearing face masks wait next to the Eurostar Terminal at Gare du Nord train station in Paris on Monday. France is banning all travel from the U.K. for 48 hours in an attempt to make sure a new strain of the coronavirus in Britain doesn't reach its shores.

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  • World

Travel From U.K. Shut Down As Nations Assess Threat Of New Coronavirus Strain

Several European nations, including Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany and Italy, announced travel restrictions from the U.K., where officials say a new variant of the coronavirus is spreading.

December 21, 2020
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  • Brakkton Booker
Thousands of couples have been separated by pandemic-related travel restrictions. Lots of them are unmarried.

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  • World

Can Love Conquer Travel Bans? Couples Divided By Pandemic Are Rallying To Reunite

Couples discuss how travel restrictions have kept them oceans apart for months. While they lobby governments to allow them to see each other, some have had to delay weddings or even miss a childbirth.

August 04, 2020
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  • Joanna Kakissis
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  • World

Homeward Bound: Pets' Incredible COVID-19 Journeys To Reunite With Owners

Travelers were stuck without a way to get back to their pets amid coronavirus travel restrictions. Now expats in China are chartering a flight to bring dogs and cats over to their owners.

July 15, 2020
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By:
  • John Ruwitch

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