{"id":374860,"date":"2020-09-23T11:21:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374860"},"modified":"2020-09-23T13:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T08:01:55","slug":"lufthansa-planning-rapid-covid-19-testing-from-october-says-top-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lufthansa-planning-rapid-covid-19-testing-from-october-says-top-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa planning rapid Covid-19 testing from October, says top executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Lufthansa AG plans to start making rapid Covid-19 antigen tests available to passengers in October and is weighing the option of opening test centres at airports in the United States and Canada, a company executive said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as airlines and airports globally have urged countries to accept a passenger\u2019s negative Covid-19 test as an alternative to travel restrictions and quarantines that have battered demand for travel.<\/p>\n<p>While the aviation industry has largely backed the use of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests which take several hours to process in a lab, airline trade group IATA on Tuesday touted antigen tests that can be processed on site and typically give results within about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Lufthansa AG plans to start making rapid Covid-19 antigen tests available to passengers in October and is weighing the option of opening test centres at airports in the United States and Canada, a company executive said on Tuesday. The move comes as airlines and airports globally have urged countries to accept a passenger\u2019s negative Covid-19 test as an alternative to travel restrictions and quarantines that have battered demand for travel. While the aviation industry has largely backed the use of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests which take several hours to process in a lab, airline trade group IATA on [&hellip;]<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374860","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=374860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}