Only three passengers refused to be tested at the airport of Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport, said the ministry of the Interior.
A total of 556 passengers were tested Saturday at paris airports on the first day of the entry into force of the sanitary control of travellers coming from of sixteen countries with a strong movement of the coronavirus, according to the ministry of the Interior.
Since Saturday morning, passengers arriving by plane and who are over 11 years from sixteen countries “at risk”, must present “evidence of the outcome of a review of biological screening virological made less than 72 hours prior to the flight, not finding a contamination by the Covid-19”.
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If the passenger does not have such a document, he is prompted to take the test in a space provided in the airport. Once the test is completed, he should leave his personal contact information and can continue to travel, in France or in transit, explains the ministry of the Interior in a press release.
Only three passengers refused to be tested
The passengers are then contacted again by the health authorities in the event of a positive result and come in the follow-up of “Contact tracing”. During the first day of the device, 2671 passengers arrived at Roissy and Orly airports from countries on the list. Among them, 556 had to be tested.
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The device in the parisian airports has mobilised 80 police officers to the border, five technicians of criminal research of the gendarmerie, 50 personal of the AP-HP and the ARS Ile-de-France, and nine firefighters. Furthermore, the controls carried out on all French airports, only three people have refused to be tested at Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport, according to the ministry of the Interior.
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The 16 countries with high circulation of the virus are Kuwait, Bahrain, the united arab Emirates, the United States, Panama, South Africa, Algeria, Brazil, India, Israel, Madagascar, Oman, Peru, Qatar, Serbia and Turkey. The borders being closed with these countries, the measure is only “French citizens residing in these countries, or of the citizens of these countries who have a stable residence in France”, as was stated by the prime minister Jean Castex.
