Traveling to Indonesia during the Omicron Surge- My Experience
January 12th, 2022 My newlywed wife and I departed Larnaca airport in Cyprus on January 2nd with negative COVID-19 PCR tests, and feeling fine. Mind you, we had a close contact on the 29th of December, but we were triple-vaxxed with Pfizer and were feeling confident that any infection would be mild and short-lived. Upon landing at CGK we immediately were swabbed by “rapid PCR” method, which means our results were going to be available within a couple of hours. In the meantime, we met our driver at the arrival halls and were whisked off to the Wyndham Cassablanca Jakarta for our 10x24hr quarantine period. We still felt mostly fine, albeit my wife had a mild dry cough and sore throat (which is easily associated with long-haul airline travel). My PCR test was tolerable, but my wife felt the swabbing was too fast and shallow, and had really made her suspicious of the technique used. She didn’t even have tears in her eyes nor a runny nose after the test. No soon...