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Many countries are opening up to vaccinated visitors as well.
New Delhi:
If you are sick of playing whack-a-mole with vaccination slots, of being confined indoors and have about Rs 1.5 lakh cash or more to burn, there s a way out - literally.
Countries like Russia and Maldives are working on programmes to offer people abroad the chance to get vaccinated against COVID-19 during a visit. Reports say similar offerings are sprouting in the US as well.
The official Twitter account of Russia s Sputnik V vaccine announced the plans last month and the tiny European republic of San Marino welcomed its first vaccine tourists this week.
As people are willing to get vaccinated, they are ready to take the dose as early as possible. They are also willing to travel to other countries for this purpose.
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Vaccine tourism kicks off in India with a package to Russia Photo: Pixabay
When the coronavirus pandemic hit the world, to say that it wreaked an unprecedented amount of havoc would be an understatement. It changed the way we lived. The tourism industry suffered the brunt of it the most as international borders closed, and travelling around the world became a faraway dream for many.
Currently, several countries, including the U.S. and the Maldives, are offering vaccines to foreign visitors.
People would need to spend one or two days travelling to the country, then stay there at least four weeks in order to receive two doses of the vaccine with a three-week interval in between. Then, upon their arrival back in Korea, they would have to spend another two weeks in mandatory self-isolation, he explained.
While the government has recently decided to allow fully vaccinated people to skip the mandatory self-isolation period after returning from overseas, the exemption rule applies only to those who have received vaccine injections in Korea.