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It’s official – SA now has a digital vax card
The Department of Health brought its COVID-19 Vaccine Certificate System online today (October 5). The URL is https://vaccine.certificate.health.gov.za/ The system, which features a scannable QR...
Etihad returns to South Africa – after being gone for a year
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways will return to South Africa in late-November, a year after it closed its Johannesburg offices and announced the suspension of flights between the two countries. Travel...
SA vax passports imminent
If all goes according to its plan, the Department of Health will have digital vaccine passports in hand and available to vaccinated South Africans by October 5. This was the view of Mia Malan,...
SA cruises are coming back!
MSC Cruises has just released the news that of the announcement by President Ramaphosa that the country has moved to lockdown level 1. The new measures will allow cruise ships to operate in line...
SAA changes int’l schedule
SAA has already made sweeping changes to its brand-new international schedule. These changes are a mix of delaying one route’s’ re-start for some months, putting one route on hold until November and...
UK to review South Africa’s red list travel ban within the next 2 weeks
The UK High Commission in Pretoria has met with the South African Department of Health and local scientific and health experts to discuss the country’s continued presence on the UK’s travel ‘red...
‘Growing pressure’ on UK to drop hotel quarantine as Ireland offers a loophole to some from SA
Policy changes in neighbouring Ireland is reportedly putting serious, and growing, pressure on the government of the United Kingdom to also drop its hotel-quarantine scheme – including from some of...
Pack your bags, Flysafair is heading to Mauritius
Low-cost airline Flysafair launching their route to Mauritius this December. This follows the announcement earlier this month by the Mauritian government to re-open the island to South African...
TAAG to resume international flights
TAAG Angola Airlines has announced the gradual resumption of its international flight operations. From early October, the carrier will resume flights to Johannesburg, Cape Town, Windhoek and Maputo....