Context:

In order to put economies back on track post-COVID lockdown, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania started a ‘travel bubble’.

About:

• Creating a travel bubble involves reconnecting countries or states that have shown a good level of success in containing the novel coronavirus pandemic domestically.
• The notion is simple: Two or more countries that have successfully curtailed COVID-19 agree to create a bubble. People who live inside the bubble could then travel freely and avoid a mandatory self-quarantine requirement.
• Potential travel bubbles among better-performing countries around the world would account for around 35 percent of the global GDP.
•  Such arrangements are especially being favored by smaller countries, who are likely to benefi t after being able to trade again with larger partners.