CDC announces a great change in air travel restrictions

"The new more effective strategy focuses on the continuum of the travel and the individual passenger."


The CDC has published new measures for air travel - read and to ensure your health and health of others, do not miss these Without signs that you have already had coronavirus.

Says the CDC: "While the Covid-19 pandemic continues, the United States Government (USG) innovates and adopts a new approach to help keep the international air passengers in good health. The new strategy more effective focuses on The continuum of travel and the individual. Passengers, including education before departure and post-arrival, efforts to develop a potential test framework with international partners and a response from the disease. This strategy Complies with the current phase of the pandemic and more effectively protects the health of the American public.

Effective September 14, 2020, the USG will remove the requirements for all flights carrying airline passengers arriving, or recently present in some countries landing in one of the 15 designated airports and stop increasing. Screening for the health of these passengers. Currently, the enhanced health of the entry is carried out for those who arrive, or with the recent presence in China (excluding the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau), Iran, of the Schengen region of Europe, the United Kingdom (excluding territories abroad outside Europe), Ireland and Brazil.

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We now understand a better understanding of the CVIV-19 transmission that indicates that symptom-based screening has limited efficiency because people with COVID-19 may have no symptoms or fever at the time of projection, or only light symptoms. The transmission of the virus can occur with passengers who have no symptoms or that have not yet developed symptoms of infection. As a result, CDC transfers its strategy and prioritizing other public health measures to reduce the risk of travel-related diseases.

Instead, USG resources will be dedicated to more efficient mitigation efforts that focus on the individual passenger, including: the teaching of pre-departure health, in flight and post-arrival for passengers; response of robust disease at airports; Voluntary collection of passenger contact information using electronic means proposed by some airlines to avoid long lines, congestion and delays associated with manual data collection; Potential tests to reduce the risk of transmission related to the virus trip cause CIVID-19 and the movement of the virus from one place to another; Campaign-specific risk assessments to help passengers make informed decisions about journey risk; Strengthening the training and education of partners in the United States transportation and ports of entry to ensure the recognition of the disease and immediate notification to the CDC; and post-arrival passenger recommendations for self-monitoring and precautions to protect others, with improved precautions, including home stay as far as possible for 14 days for people who arrive from destinations. high risk.

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By recenting our mitigation efforts on the risks of individual passengers throughout the air travel route, the USG can most effectively protect the health of the US public. "

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