Dealing With the Coronavirus
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is urging countries to avoid imposing travel restrictions that are inconsistent with international health regulations to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.
Exceeding those recommendations — included in guidance material from the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) — without first conducting an appropriate risk assessment “could lead to unnecessary and negative impacts, especially for the many vulnerable or isolated populations which rely so importantly on their global aviation connections,” ICAO said.
WHO’s Feb. 10 update said that 40,554 cases of the virus had been confirmed worldwide, with about 99 percent of those in China. Outside China, 319 cases had been confirmed in a total of 24 countries. Some 909 people in China, and one person in another country, had died of the virus.
