Coronavirus Update 10th March 2020

The FCO released updated guidelines for Italy on 9^th March 2020. The FCO now advise against all but essential travel to Italy, due to an ongoing outbreak of coronavirus (Covid-19).

Travellers returning from Italy are being instructed to stay indoors and avoid contact with other people when returning to the UK, even if they do not have symptoms. Due to this update, it would be irresponsible for us to allow members traveling from these areas to join courses with members from outside of these areas for the time being.

Following the FCO guidance, members who have been in Italy in the last 14 days must not attend at BASI course whether symptom free or not. If members have self-isolated for 14 days and are still symptom free, they can then rebook a BASI course, provided that we are running courses and taking bookings at the time. We’ll be following the same guidelines for our trainers.

On courses currently running, we will be asking students to act immediately to avoid contaminating others. If students develop any flu-like symptoms, they should self-isolate immediately and contact local health services (dial 112 for emergency services in Europe).

We also wanted to update you with our plans to protect members. Until we have more information, we won’t be taking any new bookings or balance payments for unconfirmed courses. We will also refund all admin fees paid for cancelled eurotests.

If a course is already confirmed, we’ll still plan to run this course unless the guidance from the FCO recommends otherwise. If we cancel confirmed courses with no guidance from the FCO, we could leave members exposed in terms of insurance claims. Here’s a useful article with some information on your travel rights.