Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #TravelBans

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I tweeted this yesterday literally hangry and waiting for my takeaway food. Time for a more considered thread on discrimination, failures, empathy and way forward. 1/n
First let's just get this out of the way. I nearly threw my phone when I saw this. Everyone needs to call out this kind of racist, discriminatory BS for what it really is. No one here thinks it's clever or funny. 2/n
The biggest failure around our response to #omicron is the #travelbans. The cancelled flights are hugely disruptive to the supply chain in southern Africa. 3/n
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Breaking: EU VP @MargSchinas says the Commission got tough with the United States in talks yesterday, demanding reciprocity on ending #TravelBans.

"They were receptive...so we’re hopeful we will have good news on that soon," he says. "It's now up to them"
#LoveIsNotTourism
"We very much insisted that the ‘America is back’ narrative and the revival of the transatlantic partnership should not be reserved to politicians, officials, diplomats and generals," Schinas says.

#Biden must also restart people-to-people contacts.
"We told them Europe is the most vaccinated continent in the world today," says Schinas. "We have in record time produced an EU #Covid19 certificate that testifies in a very accurate way that a traveller is not a risk to others."

(US doesn't have a national vaccine certificate)
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✈️Flying during COVID19 - the numbers

COVID19-figures on aviation are rare.
A thread about (the search for) this data.

We've collected 4.400 flights with at least one contagious(!) person.

Corona spreads its wings… ⬇️🧵
✈️Flying during COVID19 - the numbers

COVID19 & variants spread worldwide, also by aviation.
Despite precautions like PCR- and Antigen-tests.

Why are there no figures?
● Commercial interests?
● Inconvenient? (we want to travel)
● Too difficult?

No... it's not too difficult.
✈️Flying during COVID19 - the numbers

Fortunately, some countries share flights with contagious COVID19-persons, to alert other passengers.

From 5 websites we've collected:
● 4.428 international "affected"-flights
● 962 flightnumbers
● 98 airlines
● 82 countries

Coverage:
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