PARIS (Reuters) – France’s busiest airport is preparing on Friday to start COVID-19 testing for passengers when they arrive from high-risk countries, a move that could reduce the need for quarantine measures that cause suffering to the tourism industry across Europe.
On Saturday morning around 6 a.m., the director of the Paris public hospital, Benjamin Paumier, will lead a team of thirty testers who will run in a makeshift area near baggage recovery at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Anyone arriving from one of the 12 countries known through the French government will be required to testers. An employee will record your touch data and direct it to a co-worker who will insert a swab into their nasal passage to collect a pattern to be tested.
Travelers are then allowed to continue their journey. The effects of the test will be communicated between 24 and hours later, when travelers will be contacted through public fitness officials.
“Check (results) is not available without delay. We don’t know if it’s positive or negative,” Paumier told Reuters at the airport.
“But the purpose is to stick to those people, especially those who are positive, to stick to them, and to find out who they have been in contact with.”
QUARANTINE REQUIRED
Fearing a momentary wave of coronavirus outbreaks in Europe, some governments have opposed high-risk destinations or told readers that they deserve to be quarantined when they return.
This has provoked the anger of some tourists and the tourism industry, who say it is a blunt instrument. Travel officials have proposed evidence on arrival as a way to curb the epidemic without disrupting plans.
Charles de Gaulle Airport checked the controls voluntarily near a foreign currency in the arrivals area. Paumier oversees a team of approximately 15 people who control approximately 1,000 others a day.
But starting Saturday morning, Paumier said, “We’ll have a team twice as much as we have here because we’ll have a much bigger workload.”
Vincent Lemire, 47, volunteered for a review Friday after a flight from Tel Aviv. Israel is one of the countries whose travelers will be subject to mandatory from Saturday.
“It makes sense, ” said Lemire of the new rules. “You know you have passports, customs, luggage. And now you have proof.
(Written through Christian Lowe; Edited through Giles Elgood)
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