The International Air Transport Association, IATA has said that there is an urgent need for testing after about 50 countries announced the suspension of flights to and from the United Kingdom UK.
According to IATA, the emerging of a more infectious variant of the Covid-19 virus has shown that there is an urgent need for systematic testing of travelers.
Governments must cooperate to put the mutually recognized testing capacity in place so that borders can remain open to the vast majority of healthy passengers. Rafael Schvartzman, IATA’s regional vice president, Europe, said in a statement.
According to him, “Covid-19 is likely to be with us for some time, so rather than travel bans, governments must adopt more flexible and practical policies to manage the risks in a way that enables people to safely work and travel. Test, test, and test again have been the mantra of the World Health Organisation, WHO for almost a year now, and we implore governments to act on this advice.”
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