{"id":389,"date":"2020-07-07T08:11:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T08:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buddy.ie\/blog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2022-07-20T20:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T20:13:21","slug":"travel-insurance-policy-update-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/2020\/07\/07\/travel-insurance-policy-update-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Insurance Policy Update: COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">Notwithstanding the CORONAVIRUS EXCLUSION clause on page 5 of the Policy booklet, we are delighted to confirm that Buddy policies now include the following protections for COVID-19.<\/span>&nbsp;\ud83e\udda0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buddy now has you covered for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Up to \u20ac10million (up from \u20ac6.5m last year)&nbsp;emergency medical expenses cover for Covid-19<\/li><li>Unlimited FREE extended trip duration cover (if, due to unexpected circumstances beyond your control)<\/li><li>Where medically necessary &#8211; repatriation costs to bring you back to the Ireland where it is deemed to be in your best interests&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/li><li>Additional accommodation and repatriation expenses for you, and anyone member of the travel party who has to remain or travel with you<\/li><li>Travel expenses, if medically necessary, for a friend or relative to travel from your home area to stay with you<\/li><li>Up to \u20ac900 hospital benefit payment<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With it looking increasingly likely that the HSE will lift some of the current travel restrictions, we know you\u2019ll want to take every possible measure to travel safely and stay healthy whilst you\u2019re away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So along with the COVID cover outlined above and the recent updates such as including cover for Irish Staycations, and the increase in emergency medical cover from \u20ac6.5m to \u20ac10m we hope you\u2019ll feel safer traveling. \ud83c\udf89<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/buddy.ie\">Buddy<\/a> will continue to explore every way in which we can provide you with the cover you need for the new risks we are all now facing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay safe.&nbsp;Stay well. \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buddy.ie\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BUDDY_COVER-1024x592.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-319\" width=\"524\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BUDDY_COVER-1024x592.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BUDDY_COVER-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BUDDY_COVER-768x444.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BUDDY_COVER.png 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notwithstanding the CORONAVIRUS EXCLUSION clause on page 5 of the Policy booklet, we are delighted to confirm that Buddy policies now include the following protections for COVID-19.&nbsp;\ud83e\udda0 Buddy now has you covered for: Up to \u20ac10million (up from \u20ac6.5m last year)&nbsp;emergency medical expenses cover for Covid-19 Unlimited FREE extended trip duration cover (if, due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/buddy_covid_update.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}