Is Christmas cancelled? Your big COVID questions, answered
could drive an unprecedented spike in COVID cases.
Catch-ups at home or outdoors, with take-away from your favourite restaurant “would certainly help reduce the risk”, she says. Get tested. If you don’t have symptoms do a rapid antigen test two days in a row to make sure you’re negative. For this purpose, they’re “very reliable”, McLaws says. If you do have any symptoms, get tested at a clinic and ask everyone who is coming to get tested too.
If you do decide to travel, you’re less at risk if you’ve had a booster shot and, she advises keeping a mask on at all times, except for when you’re eating and drinking.
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