Festival no exterior? Divirta-se e fique seguro

Preparando-se para um festival no exterior

To fully relax and enjoy the moment, both festivais e férias take some planejamento antecipado. Combine-os em um festival no exterior, e a lista de coisas a organizar e considerar cresce. Para facilitar, estas são as coisas essenciais a organizar antes de viajar que ajudam a proteger sua segurança e bem-estar antes que a diversão comece.

Lista de verificação antes de viajar

• Contrate um seguro de viagem - that covers yourself, as well as all planned activities and all your festival possessions and gadgets.

• Verifique os conselhos de viagem sobre COVID-19 para o seu destino - including entry requirements and local laws and customs.

• Para viagens do Reino Unido para a Europa, obtenha um Cartão Europeu de Seguro de Saúde do Reino Unido (GHIC) - this grants you access to emergency healthcare in the EU for free or at a reduced cost.

• Check you have all necessary vaccinations - festivals are crowded places, and diseases like sarampo, caxumba, e rubéola, protected by the vacina MMR, pode se espalhar rapidamente. Check your destination for any specific vaccinations they require or advise you to have.

• Fique atento a surtos de doenças - in the country or region you're visiting.

• Faça backup dos seus documentos online - festival camping and drinking can mean any paper documents like tickets and passports can be all too easily lost or stolen. Make sure you keep cópias digitais.

Fazer as malas para um festival que envolve um voo é muito diferente de ir de carro, onde você pode encher seu veículo até a borda com equipamentos de camping, comida, bebida e qualquer luxo que deseje levar. Esta lista de embalagem para festival no exterior foi projetada para mantê-lo o mais seguro e bem possível, enquanto economiza espaço valioso.

COVID-19

The days of lockdowns may be over, but COVID-19 is still circulating worldwide, and different countries have different approaches to keeping it under control.

Before your trip, check what the COVID-19 entry requirements and local rules are, including whether you need proof of a negative test, proof of vacinação e reforços, e coberturas faciais nessa região. Certos festivais podem ter suas próprias regras para ajudar a reduzir o risco de propagação da COVID-19 entre multidões, então verifique antes de participar.

Once there, practise good hygiene as much as you can and lave as mãos regularly. It's common for festivals loos to run out of hand wash, so keep hand sanitiser on you in a pocket or money belt. If you experience possible symptoms while you're there, locate the nearest medical tent and follow the medical expert's advice. They may have instant COVID-19 tests on hand.

Sarampo

Sarampo is a highly contagious viral disease that can cause unpleasant rashes, high temperatures, and cold-like symptoms - and sometimes it leads to serious complications. Although the vacina MMR keeps measles very low risk in UK mass gatherings, the chances of it spreading are higher in several other countries.

You can look for outbreaks of measles and how high risk your destination is by checking out the site do NaTHNaC. Se você não tem certeza se tomou duas doses da vacina MMR, verifique com seu médico antes de viajar.

Mpox

In July 2022, a global mpox (formally known as monkeypox) outbreak was declared. This virus - which can cause aches and pains, a high temperature, chills, a rash, and serious complications - is spread mainly by infected rodents. While mpox doesn't spread very easily between people, it's possible to get it through close contact with an infected person.

If you're in a group that's more vulnerable to mpox, visit the página NaTHNaC on mpox for latest guidance.

At a festival abroad, you can reduce your chances of exposure by practicing sexo seguro, e evitar contato próximo com alguém que esteja doente ou possa ter a erupção cutânea de mpox - incluindo não tocar nas roupas, toalhas ou roupas de cama dessa pessoa.

Malária

Malária is a serious and potentially life-threatening infection that's spread by bites from female mosquitoes. Symptoms, which can be flu-like, can quickly become severe and you must seek urgent medical attention if you become unwell during or after a visit to a high-risk country - some types of malaria can develop months after you return home.

First, descubra if your festival is somewhere high risk as soon as possible. If yes, there's no vaccination against malaria, but there are medicines you can take in the form of tablets. Ideally 6-8 weeks before the event, book a travel health risk assessment with your GP, who can speak to you about the benefits and side-effects of these comprimidos antimaláricos and prescribe them.

It’s always a good plan to proteja-se de picadas at a summer festival. Mosquitoes that carry this disease typically bite after sunset, so if you're staying in a tent choose one with a second protective cover that keeps insects out, or if you've booked accommodation, make sure there's a mosquito net over the bed.

Febre da dengue

A dengue é outra infecção viral que se espalha através de picadas de mosquito. Ela causa uma doença semelhante à gripe, com sintomas como febre, dores musculares, dores nas articulações e dor de cabeça.

There's no vaccine against dengue if your travelling somewhere de alto risco. Em vez disso, você precisa minimizar suas chances de ser picado o máximo possível, especialmente entre o amanhecer e o anoitecer, quando os mosquitos que transmitem a dengue tendem a picar:

• Cubra sua pele com roupas longas e folgadas.

• Aplique repelente de insetos em qualquer pele exposta e reaplique conforme as instruções do rótulo.