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The images multiplied rapidly on social networks: they show queues that seem endless and that caused a concentration of passengers, this Sunday, at Lisbon Airport, in the arrivals area, precisely in the health control area, where it is found that Travelers have the negative Covid-19 Test, necessary to enter Portugal.
According to the CM, the situation was due to the arrival of at least 12 flights almost simultaneously (five from Brazil, four from North America and three from Africa). Passengers had to wait about an hour to pass through the health control, in charge of the Immigration and Border Service, before they could proceed to control passports and electronic gates.
To Correio da Manhã, ANA Aeroportos official source confirms “that there was a specific restriction, with the generation of a longer queue, this morning”, sending details about the operation of the sanitary control zone to the SEF. The entity assures that “as usual, ANA shared the list of flights with SEF so that they adapt their means.”
The employees were assigned “to support the passengers and maintain physical distance, in order to ensure the best conditions,” says ANA Aeroportos, when asked by the CM about the multitude of people seen in the images, and who are not respects the regulations decreed by the DGS. .
SEF rejects “any responsibility”
The Foreigners and Borders Service rejected in a statement “any responsibility in the agglomeration of registered passengers this morning,” adding that between 7:25 am and 9:45 am there was a landing of 18 flights and the arrival of about 1,400 passengers.
“It is not the responsibility of the Service to control the social distance between each of the passengers during the wait,” defends the SEF, which denies that ANA Aeroportos has sent passenger service officers to the place. “During this period, no elements from ANA Aeroportos were present, only SEF inspectors, PSP elements and elements of the laboratory in charge of carrying out the tests”, guarantees the SEF.
Another reason cited was a “delay in the arrival of a Dakar flight (…) and an irregularity, on the part of ANA Aeroportos, verified with the Fortaleza flight that landed at port 42” and that forced the circulation of passengers in the opposite direction and generating a greater number of people.
SEF says that, in this morning’s operations, “from 7 to 10 inspectors were assigned to do the documentary control and test control of Covid-19”, when there are usually 5 SEF inspectors performing this function at the airport of Lisbon.
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