{"id":374806,"date":"2020-09-23T10:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374806"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:37:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T06:07:41","slug":"airlines-call-for-covid-19-tests-before-all-international-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-call-for-covid-19-tests-before-all-international-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines call for covid-19 tests before all international flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS : Global airlines on Tuesday called for pre-departure COVID-19 testing for all international passengers to replace the quarantines they blame for exacerbating the travel slump.<\/p>\n<p>Rapid and affordable antigen tests that can be administered by non-medical staff are expected to become available in &#8220;coming weeks&#8221; and should be rolled out under globally agreed standards, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said during an online media briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don\u2019t see any alternative solution that would be less challenging or more effective,&#8221; IATA Director General Alexandre de Juniac said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS : Global airlines on Tuesday called for pre-departure COVID-19 testing for all international passengers to replace the quarantines they blame for exacerbating the travel slump. Rapid and affordable antigen tests that can be administered by non-medical staff are expected to become available in &#8220;coming weeks&#8221; and should be rolled out under globally agreed standards, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said during an online media briefing. &#8220;We don\u2019t see any alternative solution that would be less challenging or more effective,&#8221; IATA Director General Alexandre de Juniac said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}