There will be no sudden resumption of air travel in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic but rather a gradual reopening as more countries become confident that the disease has been beaten back on a global basis, an Asia Pacific health expert told a Flight Safety Foundation safety seminar today.
“This is not over anywhere until it’s over everywhere,” Dr. Sarah Borwein, director of the TravelSafe Clinic Hong Kong and past president of the Asia Pacific Travel Health Society, said in her keynote address on Day 2 of the sixth annual Singapore Aviation Safety Seminar (SASS), being held virtually.
Countries that have been most successful in preventing transmission of the virus are likely to be the most reluctant to open their borders to travelers, Borwein said, adding that travel corridors, which allow passengers to travel on specified routes between specified countries with low infection rates, will appear first, in advance of a general reopening.
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