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Johana Lorduy – [email protected]
Through a statement, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection announced that it included new guidelines in the biosafety protocol, for the airport and aeronautical sector, which will apply to airports, airlines, transport companies, customs agencies, Special Administrative Unit of Aeronautics Civil and passengers.
The first measure details that only the departments with a covid-19 contagion rate lower than 1,000 per 100,000 inhabitants and whose main access route from other departments is by air, “will be asked, before boarding, to people over 7 years, the presentation of the result of the test for the detection of covid-19, which must be negative, with a validity of no more than 48 hours ”, announced Claudia Milena Cuéllar, director of Promotion and Prevention.
Likewise, it is stipulated in the administrative act that the traveler who does not show the result of the test or it is positive, will not be allowed access to the aircraft.
Another of the guidelines included in the Resolution contemplates that the EPS and EOC “must authorize covid-19 detection tests to their affiliates over seven years of age, as long as they submit the request attaching the transport contract or equivalent travel document. to the departments that meet the conditions mentioned above. “
Finally, the Ministry of Health recalled that both travelers and workers must comply with the use of personal protection elements.
