{"id":2824,"date":"2021-08-16T01:27:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T01:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=28260"},"modified":"2021-08-16T01:27:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T01:27:24","slug":"iata-calls-on-states-to-follow-who-guidance-on-cross-border-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/iata-calls-on-states-to-follow-who-guidance-on-cross-border-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"IATA Calls on States to Follow WHO Guidance on Cross-Border Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div> <a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/featured\/iata-calls-on-states-to-follow-who-guidance-on-cross-border-travel\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IATA Calls on States to Follow WHO Guidance on Cross-Border Travel-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iata-calls-on-states-to-follow-who-guidance-on-cross-border-travel.jpg\" alt=\"IATA Calls on States to Follow WHO Guidance on Cross-Border Travel\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>Geneva, Switzerland, August 16, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on states to follow new guidance on travel from the World Health Organization (WHO). The guidance recommends a \u201crisk-based approach\u201d to implementing measures related to COVID-19 and international travel. It will be presented to the WHO COVID-19 International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Thursday 15 July.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, WHO recommended that governments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not require proof of COVID-19 vaccination as a mandatory condition for entry or exit<\/li>\n<li>Remove measures such as testing and\/or quarantine requirements for travelers who are fully vaccinated or have had a confirmed previous COVID-19 infection within the past six months<\/li>\n<li>Ensure alternative pathways for unvaccinated individuals through testing so that they are able to travel internationally. The WHO recommends rRT-PCR tests or antigen detection rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDTs) for this purpose.<\/li>\n<li>Only implement test and\/or quarantine measures for international travelers \u201con a risk-based manner\u201d with policies on testing and quarantine regularly reviewed to ensure they are lifted when no longer necessary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThese commonsense, risk-based recommendations from WHO, if followed by states, will allow for international air travel to resume while minimizing the chance of importing COVID-19. As WHO notes\u2014and as the latest UK testing data proves\u2014international travelers are not a high-risk group in terms of COVID-19. Out of 1.65 million tests carried out on arriving international passengers in the UK since February, only 1.4% were positive for COVID-19. It\u2019s long past time for governments to incorporate data into risk-based decision-making process for re-opening borders,\u201d said Willie Walsh, IATA\u2019s Director General.<\/p>\n<p>WHO also called on states to communicate \u201cin a timely and adequate manner\u201d any changes to international health-related measures and requirements. \u201cConsumers face a maze of confusing, uncoordinated and fast-changing border entry rules that discourage them from traveling, causing economic hardship across those employed in the travel and tourism sector. According to our latest passenger survey, 70% of recent travelers thought the rules were a challenge to understand,\u201d said Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, WHO encouraged states to look at bilateral, multilateral, and regional agreements, particularly among neighboring counties, \u201cwith the aim of facilitating the recovery of key socioeconomic activities\u201d including tourism, for which international travel plays a vital role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pandemic has put more than 46 million jobs, normally supported by aviation, at risk. By incorporating these latest WHO recommendations into their border opening strategies, states can begin to reverse the economic damage of the past 18 months and put the world on the road to recovery,\u201c said Walsh.<\/p>\n<p><em>First published at<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/featured\/iata-calls-on-states-to-follow-who-guidance-on-cross-border-travel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> TravelCommunication.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva, Switzerland, August 16, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on states to follow new guidance on travel from the World Health Organization (WHO). The guidance recommends a \u201crisk-based approach\u201d to implementing measures related to COVID-19 and international travel. It will be presented to the WHO COVID-19 International Health Regulations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[104,88,851,52,43,89,90,37,111,45,46,44,91,48,59,47],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news","tag-airlines","tag-covid-19","tag-cross-border-travel","tag-featured","tag-global-travel-news","tag-healthtravelplanner-com","tag-iata","tag-news","tag-travel-and-tourism-foundation","tag-travel-communication","tag-travel-index","tag-travel-news-hub","tag-travel-pass","tag-unwtp-news","tag-updates","tag-wttc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}