Latest booster required?

[wine-wine-wine]

DW and I recently recovered from our first (and hopefully last 🤞)  cases of COVID. We have not yet had the most recent booster and it seems like weird timing to take it as our immunity is still high. 
 

Anyone know if this will cause problems with boarding? We are otherwise fully vaccinated and, because we will be in Chile, we are fully registered in the VeriFLY app. 
 

Thanks for any insights!

[KBs mum]

Depends what Chile's requirements (and Viking's) are. Check their government website. Also check any other countries you will be flying in or out of

[Peregrina651]

Viking keeps a document of requirements. If anything in the document is unclear, contact Viking directly. It is updated very regularly. https://docs.vikingcruises.com/pdf/14-PreCruiseRequirement-All-US_CAN_UK_AU_NZ.pdf

 

If you have recovered from Covid recently, you may still be testing positive (and even if you haven't tested positive since recovering, who's to say it won't happen while you are traveling). For your own convenience while traveling, you should carry letters from your MD certifying your recovery, in case it becomes an issue.

[CDNPolar]

5 minutes ago, Peregrina651 said:

Viking keeps a document of requirements. If anything in the document is unclear, contact Viking directly. It is updated very regularly. https://docs.vikingcruises.com/pdf/14-PreCruiseRequirement-All-US_CAN_UK_AU_NZ.pdf

 

If you have recovered from Covid recently, you may still be testing positive (and even if you haven't tested positive since recovering, who's to say it won't happen while you are traveling). For your own convenience while traveling, you should carry letters from your MD certifying your recovery, in case it becomes an issue.

Good advice.  We recovered only about 6 weeks before our last Viking cruise and we had letters from our doctor stating our illness dates and our recovery time frame.  Since our covid infection was so recent, Viking told us that if on boarding we tested positive they would use the doctor's recovery letter and consider our test invalid.

 

It is also recommended that you don't take a booster until at least 3 - 6 months following a covid positive infection, so your infection and letter of recovery would replace any need for a booster if you are under the 3-6 month period, but check with your doctor on that.

Edited November 24, 2022 by CDNPolar

[CILCIANRQTS]

Our daughter tested positive a few weeks before boarding.

The doc’s recovery letter was all she needed - sort of a “get out of jail free” card!

[travelbug11]

Yes, take a letter. When I went to Chile last year we were tested at the airport.  Also, they require lots of paperwork.

[wine-wine-wine]

Paperwork has decreased substantially for Chile thank goodness. No more mobility passes. Just the normal vaccination check and Viking is requiring VeriFLY. Oh yes and “frequent testing”. 

At this point I’m thinking to pay for a PCR test to see where we are. If we are clean I think we’re fine as we tested  negative way back in mid September. 
 

Thanks everyone!