Alyosha RobillosBy now the entire world knows enough to be responsible and stay at home, but if international travel can’t be helped, we found a hack that helps determine your safety. CovidEntryCheck is a website that tracks COVID-19 travel restrictions, updates, and trends; and it’s potentially every traveller’s BFF as nations inch closer to full recovery and open borders to foreign visitors.
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Click on the website and it sums up what you need to know. It tells you pertinent information essential to your travels, “from COVID-19 hot zones to safe green zones”. CovidEntryCheck lets you take a peek into the COVID-19 situation in your destination even before booking your international trip.
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TruTrip, a travel technology company in Southeast Asia, developed the website to shorten the process of pre-booking research. From a traveller’s perspective, trip planning amid a pandemic now involves jumping from one website to another for COVID-19 updates. Before any movement, travellers must take it upon themselves to cherrypick reliable sources for existing COVID-19 travel restrictions and protocols. Needless to say, you can spend hours on end searching for travel news you can put to good use.
The easiest way to double-check COVID-19 travel restrictions
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How user-friendly is the website? You’ll get all you need in just a single click. Simply enter your travel route and click “Show Me”; CovidEntryCheck pulls out findings from its database of 34,000 travel routes, 200 websites, and 15 legitimate data sources.
We tried it ourselves and were met with these results upon checking if we could fly from Singapore to New Zealand given existing COVID-19 travel restrictions in both countries. Take a look at the results, complete with entry requirements for both countries:
COVID-19 travel restrictions in New Zealand as of 25 Aug 2020 | Image credit: CovidEntryCheck Official Website
Image credit: CovidEntryCheck Official Website
Not only does the website inform users about COVID-19 travel restrictions; it also leads them to reliable sources for more news. CovidEntryCheck offers details about travellers’ return trip, too:
Image credit: CovidEntryCheck Official Website
Image credit: CovidEntryCheck Official Website
As with any technology that aims to improve our quality of life during these trying times, CovidEntryCheck also has a disclaimer you ought to note. The website assures users that they source COVID-19 travel restrictions and updates from official government pages and travel and health advisories. But they maintain that the data on their website is updated every 24 hours.
Discrepancies between the last update and when you check may certainly appear, which is why CovidEntryCheck encourages users to click on the links they provide, too. At a time when information is readily available and fake news is rampant, transparency is something we appreciate.
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What do you think? Is CovidEntryCheck something you see yourself using for staying updated about the latest COVID-19 travel restrictions and protocols? Moreover, have you travelled during the pandemic? Let us know!
Information extracted from a press release issued by CovidEntryCheck.
