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COVID-19 travel advice

Travel and illness

Despite your planning, an illness may delay or cancel your trip. Stay home if you or anyone you're traveling with has:

  • Symptoms of COVID-19, such as fever or new loss of taste or smell.
  • Taken a COVID-19 test and is waiting for results.
  • Been diagnosed with COVID-19.

Watch for serious symptoms of COVID-19, such as trouble breathing and chest pain. Get help if you or a person you're taking care of has symptoms that worry you.

Once a fever is gone and symptoms are getting better, you may choose to travel. But for about five days after feeling better, you could still spread the virus that causes COVID-19 to others. Take extra actions to protect the people around you.

  • Wear a mask.
  • Keep your distance from others, especially when indoors.
  • Clean your hands regularly.
  • Keep the air flowing by turning on fans or opening windows when you can.

If you start to feel worse or your fever comes back, avoid being around others again until you feel better.