The subscription to travel insurance is in principle optional. However, with the coronavirus issues, some countries have worried about the financial consequences of a quarantine or contamination. In such situations, who pays for medical or accommodation costs?
Without this insurance, the person coming as part of a tourist stay is covered by the local health system. It is therefore the state in which she goes that alone assumes all the health costs in the event of covid. Likewise, if the traveler is detained, for example because of quarantine or confinement, there is nothing to say that he can financially assume this unforeseen event. Who then pays the hotel bill?
To deal with any unforeseen event, some tourist destinations now require an insurance certificate mentioning the Covid-19. It is only on presentation of this that the traveler can board the plane, or even obtain a visa.
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