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Global travel restrictions expected to relax as early as April
Published on: 2021-02-25
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As the numbers of COVID-19 cases across the globe have dropped for a fifth consecutive week in 2021, Chinese scientists interpreted the encouraging signs, including the worst-hit UK rolling out lockdown lift plans, as a possible "tapering-off" of the pandemic that would likely enable the relaxation of global travel restrictions as early as in April this year.
 

Yet they warned a new virus variant prevailing in Europe and the US and uneven vaccine distribution may drag the global effort in battling the pandemic. The drop in cases offers us buffer time to reflect on what measures to double down and what loopholes to fix to prepare for a possible resurgence in the future.
 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday announced a plan for the lifting of lockdown restrictions in England, which begins with reopening schools in England on March 8, and gradually moves to lift all legal limits on congregating and reopening the remaining closed sectors, such as nightclubs.
 

The UK's plan was made after a rapid vaccine rollout in the UK which contributed to a substantial drop in infections, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19. News of the UK recovery, the worst-hit country, combined with WHO's report last week of plummeting COVID-19 cases for a fifth consecutive week, seem to send encouraging signs to the world that has been ravaged by coronavirus for more than a year.

Possible tapering point

Several scientists believe that those positive signs point to a possible tapering-off of the global COVID-19 pandemic. They pointed out that implementation of stronger public health measures, stricter adherence to the rules borne out of fear of faster-spreading variants, and the natural seasonality of coronavirus have all played a constructive part in the recent decline.
 

A Beijing-based immunologist even predicted that global travel restrictions will start to be eased in April, if the positive trend continues in the Northern Hemisphere.

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