Revisiting the Role of COVID-19 Travel Restrictions in Light of Delta and Other Variants

No one expected the travel restrictions imposed early in the COVID-19 pandemic to last so long or remain such a messy patchwork, in part because of the arrival of more contagious variants such as the delta variant – with significant effects on family reunification and humanitarian protection, travel for business and pleasure, and international migration. More than 18 months on, debates continue over the effectiveness of these measures in meeting public-health goals. Experts are working, though, to learn from the COVID-19 response to improve decision-making for handling future cross-border pandemics. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Kelley Lee, head of the Pandemics and Borders initiative at Simon Fraser University in Canada, about what the future holds, and whether decisionmakers truly learn to adapt or instead pull out the playbook from the last crisis.

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Revisiting the Role of COVID-19 Travel Restrictions in Light of Delta and Other Variants is an episode from Moving Beyond Pandemic by Migration Policy Institute (Meghan Benton).

This episode is 29:24 long.

This episode was published on Oct 11, 2021.

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