Evidence of the substantial human cost of COVID-19 travel and border restrictions has emerged in new reports, particularly for the tens of thousands of international travellers who were stranded overseas and separated from their loved ones for over 18 months during the pandemic.
Lead author Pippa McDermid from the University of New South Wales said that most studies have looked at the impacts of travel bans from a disease-mitigating standpoint.
“At the time of writing these studies, most of the literature was focused on the impacts of travel restrictions from a reducing disease importation perspective,” McDermid said of her paper, an early release from the 2023 European microbiology and infectious diseases event to be held in Copenhagen from April 15 to 18….