IATA calls for layered alternative to quarantine

By Cirium25 June 2020

 

IATA has highlighted research findings that quarantine effectively shuts down passenger demand for air travel, and is urging governments to adopt a variety of alternative measures to minimise the risk of importing coronavirus via infected passengers.

 

The airline association’s proposed framework consists of measures to prevent sick people from traveling and to mitigate the risk of transmission should a passenger discover they have Covid-19 after their arrival.

 

“Imposing quarantine measures on arriving travellers keeps countries in isolation and the travel and tourism sector in lockdown,” says IATA director general Alexandre de Juniac. 

 

“Fortunately, there are policy alternatives that can reduce the risk of importing Covid-19 infections while still allowing for the resumption of travel and tourism that are vital to jump-starting national economies.

 

Read more: https://www.flightglobal.com/airlines/iata-calls-for-layered-alternative-to-quarantine/138990.article

Key to IATA’s strategy is discouraging people with symptoms from travelling.

 

what about the asymptomatic ones,  Health declarations can also be a tool to conduct screening, along with temperature checks, unfortunately not 100% reliable, in other words, best solution is not to travel

Obviously travels will not resume with systematic 2 weeks prison on arrival (and return).

 

Only way is still (and will always be) accurate TESTS. Not much talk about those...

 

Glad to hear IATA can think.