Booster for Covid-19 Vaccination has to be within the last 9 months or 6 months of sailing date!!!???

[BklynBorn47]

I will be following this thread closely.  43 cruises but never on MSC so far.  We were just about to book the Meraviglia from Marseille on 25 Sept back to the US (Oct 13) as an alternative to flying home after B2B in the Mediterranean (Windstar).

 

Our booster was Nov 12th.  So our April 25 -June 2 European cruise is OK regardless of anybody's 9 month rule, but by Sept we are out of that time frame.  Windstar thinks of Nov booster is fine.

 

We would get another booster if one was available to us, but I'm not sure what the US rules are.  Oh joy, something else to research.

[lasnev]

Hoping for Northern Europe To change soon!

[janlou77]

The UK website for Northern European cruises has changed today. The booster vaccination no longer expires after 9 months!

[shepardo01]

2 hours ago, janlou77 said:

The UK website for Northern European cruises has changed today. The booster vaccination no longer expires after 9 months!

Thanks so much for finding and posting this!.... very relieved!!!

[showingdiva]

4 minutes ago, shepardo01 said:

Thanks so much for finding and posting this!.... very relieved!!!

 

It has.

 

You may all thank me later  😛

 

Seriously though, after taking an email beyond customer services, to their UK marketing and sales director, I had a response today, around the time of the change, to say that with hindsight, they had worded it badly and unintentionally caused worry and confusion.

 

[Itochen33]

On 3/6/2022 at 1:19 PM, shepardo01 said:

Hi there Itochen.

Do you have a link for the UK info that you included above in relation to the booster not expiring?

I cannot find what you posted anywhere, on any part of any MSC site.

Many thanks.

Hey there my dear!

i am so sorry, I am on a cruise right now but here is the UK website that I have it from. 
 

https://www.msccruises.co.uk/health-and-safety-measures/mediterranean

 

you find it under the embarcation infos. Hope I could help. 
 

tina

[MISSGJ]

I’m so confused (it doesn’t take a lot.)

 

Am I right I’m reading from all this that it doesn’t matter when I had the initial 2 shots as long as I’ve had my booster within the last 9 months and more than 14 days before departure?

[RudiRatlos]

32 minutes ago, MISSGJ said:

Am I right I’m reading from all this that it doesn’t matter when I had the initial 2 shots as long as I’ve had my booster within the last 9 months and more than 14 days before departure?

It does not matter wether your booster was within the last 9 months.

9 months only apply to the initial vaccination without a booster.

[MISSGJ]

9 minutes ago, RudiRatlos said:

It does not matter wether your booster was within the last 9 months.

9 months only apply to the initial vaccination without a booster.

But if for example your first two vaccines were a year ago but you’ve had a booster, you are fine. 

[RudiRatlos]

If you had the booster more than 14 days before embarkation, everything else does not matter.

 

[BHBillH]

right now if you had the booster your good, second booster not approved for general public yet..... 

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html%23:~:text%3DIf%20you%20receive%20a%20vaccine,than%20the%20recommended%20interval.&ved=2ahUKEwj-l9CessH2AhWblGoFHQ5FBZIQFnoECD0QBQ&usg=AOvVaw1hot91sih7Qjc9SVpFxWUV

Edited March 12, 2022 by BHBillH
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[steamboats]

Still not changed on the German website...

 

steamboats

[RudiRatlos]

Right now (1.15pm CET, Mar 13th) the German website shows a literal translation of the above linked UK-site (#56).

 

It  was about the mediterranean here, for cruises in northern europe it has still the 9 months for booster also (just bad wording IMHO).

Edited March 13, 2022 by RudiRatlos

[lasnev]

Still confusing on the Italian website...