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The government is already reducing border restrictions and Sajid Javid admitted the other day Omicron is everywhere so no longer any point trying to keep it out.Really stuck with this one. Need some advice please, if possible.
We've booked Eurostar tickets to see my wife's family in Belgium. She's from there originally, and the last time she saw her family was in August when they came over for our wedding. We've had our tickets booked for weeks and have got all the required documentation, ordered/obtained all of the tests that we need. It's been a faff and pretty expensive.
With the recent news from the last few days, suddenly all of our plans are up in the air, despite there being no "official" confirmation of anything just yet. There's talk of a lockdown before Christmas, after Christmas, "just" restrictions, etc. The trouble is that we leave on Tuesday (21st) and come back on Thursday (30th). To me, there's a real possibility of having to quarantine when we get back, especially if restrictions come back into place. I'm a teacher, so I would most likely then have to miss the first week at least, possibly even most of the second if we have to quarantine.
We're edging towards the cautious route of cancelling the trip...but I really don't know what to do. I feel that we won't hear anything until it's too late. E.g. we might only hear of restrictions in the UK when we are already in Belgium, so may then be affected coming back. Is it likely that (given the way things are going) that we'd have to quarantine coming back? Are we perhaps being too overly negative or are we on the right track with our thinking? We're generally quite cautious/"careful" people, or at least I'd like to think so. The last 72 hours have really thrown us.
Fecking Omicron.
I think there is a very small chance of you having to quarantine on your return. I think your bigger risk is not being allowed in to Belgium, but there's only another couple of days left to find out about that.