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Talking with him sunday time On Friday, Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane said SA is using World Health Organization guidelines to determine which countries to allow entry when international travel resumes.
WHO advises countries resuming international travel to consider transmission patterns, national public health and social measures to control outbreaks in both countries of origin and destination, and public health capacity to manage cases. suspicious and confirmed among travelers, including airports and other points of entry.
The tourism minister said that people from countries considered high risk can enter South Africa if they can show that they have investments here or are coming for strategic work.
“If country A has been classified as high risk, someone who has invested in South Africa and has to come to check his project, can ask the Home Secretary to say that I have an investment and I want to check it. person comes as long as they produce a negative test within 72 hours of the trip, “said Kubayi-Ngubane.
The high risk list will be reviewed every two weeks. If the infection rate of a prohibited country decreases, it will be removed from the list.
Meanwhile, Abu Dhabi-based Etihad has published a passenger safety guide. The airline’s national manager in SA, Karlene Barkley, said the measures include the provision of “wellness kits” of masks and disinfectants to passengers, the crew with full personal protective equipment and all food on board tested and served. in accordance with accepted health guidelines.
South African travel and tourism actors said this week that they are now eagerly waiting for the government to publish the list of countries whose citizens are welcome in South Africa.
“It will be critical,” said André Schulz, Lufthansa’s managing director for Eastern and Southern Africa. Schulz said the airline, which has been operating weekly repatriation flights throughout the shutdown, has seen a steady increase in inquiries about return travel tickets and commercial flights.
Brett Hoppé, general manager of the Sun City complex, was optimistic about the resumption of international travel. “The return of international flights is great news, it really sets things up.”
