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  I have spent more than four months at home. The last trip (to Mumbai) seems years ago. The economic losses are close to a trillion dollars in the travel industry alone and countries have started opening up. In fact, Barbados is even   letting you stay for a year ! There are no flights out of India right now for leisure travellers and international borders are closed, so travelling in India is coming up as the alternative. Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Kerala  are focusing on domestic crowds, all with their own policies for quarantine, social distancing and safe travels. As much as I’d like to just do the drive to Jaipur, it’s a risk that I’m not willing to take. I believe you shouldn’t either.  Let me explain. Numbers Are Rising In India, we have hit 15 lakh cases, with as many as 50,000 positive cases in a day. Our fatality rate is 2.25% with 34,193 deaths, but it’s far from over. As seen in  Australia  and  China , a second wave...