Will Removing Mandatory COVID-19 Test Save the Airlines?

By Editorial Team 05/08/2020
Rapid Test Kit Covid-19
Summary

The Ministry of Transportation casts a plan to abolish mandatory COVID-19 rapid and swab test requirements for aircraft passengers. Transportation Ministry's Director General of Civil Aviation Novie Riyanto said that he is reviewing the matter with the COVID-19 Task Force. "That the Task Force's authority, we only carry it out," he said, Tuesday (8/4).

Spokesperson of the Transportation Ministry's Directorate General of Air Transportation Budi Prayitno said the requirements for rapid and swab tests for airplane passengers are also in the hands of the Ministry of Health. According to him, the requirements are regulated through the COVID-19 Handling Task Force Circular No. 7/2020. As long as the regulation has not been revised, the Ministry of Transportation will continue to implement it.

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