How risky is a 2 hours layover in Paris Charles de Gaulle considering the COVID-19 situation? [closed]
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I shall be traveling to the US from India on 10th June this year for an internship, accompanied by my family. I booked a round-trip Delta flight recently; it has a ~2 hr layover at Paris Charles de Gaulle. I'm deliberating on whether to cancel my tickets and choose some other route. Currently, there seem to 334 COVID-19 cases in Île-de-France (source: Wikipedia) but that does not appear to be a considerable percentage considering the ~12 million population in the region.
I'm looking for some advice here, preferably from someone who has visited Charles de Gaulle recently or is well aware of the situation there. Obviously no one can accurately predict what the situation will be in June, but perhaps one can extrapolate a few things from the current scenario.
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Unfortunately my crystal ball isn't working today, but I will try to provide an answer anyway.
I don't know why you are worried about a 2-hour layover in a location in 3 months time, which currently has very few infections.
Shouldn't you be more concerned about spending 12+ hours in a thin metal tube within a few centimetres of hundreds of people?
Even if you did catch it, then the vast majority of people survive and are not badly affected and don't need hospital treatment of any kind.
And as of 11th March some 4,300 people have died of the illness. Out of ~120,000 infections. And I believe that every death was somebody which already had underlying heath conditions.
Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-toll/
Compared to 1.25 million people who died in road traffics accidents (2013 https://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/traffic_deaths_number/en/) then you should probably be more worried about taking a safe means of transport to/from the airport!
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Your additional risk in CDG is minuscule compared to the risk in the indian airport, the US airport, and the flight itself.
If the flight will be happening at all, and if you are even allowed to fly - which is both unclear today - your worries about some hours in CDG are unreasonable.
Answer 3
Nobody can tell you what the situation is on June 10th. Coronavirus might be gone, or all flights from India might be cancelled, or all flights to France might be cancelled.
At the airport, you can reduce your risk: Stay away from people (5 meters), especially coughing people, don't touch anything, wash your hands after touching anything.
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