Havana’s airport reopens this Sunday for commercial flights.
The International Airport of Havana (Cuba), closed since March 24th to stop the expansion of the coronavirus, reopens on Sunday to commercial flights, Cuban authorities announced on Tuesday.
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“The Institute of Civil Aeronautics of Cuba communicates that it has been decided to restart commercial, regular and charter air operations at the International Airport Jose Marti in Havana, next November 15, at 0:00 a.m.”, indicated the official site Cubadebate.
The sanitary protocol establishes that each traveler, whose temperature will be controlled at the airport, will have to carry out a PCR test upon his arrival in Cuba and then limit his movements until he has the results of the test, generally 24 hours later. Five days later, he will have to undergo another PCR test, reported AFP.
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“A sanitary fee has been foreseen, with the aim of covering the costs of the implemented protocols,” specified Cubadebate, without specifying the amount of this fee.
The airport in the capital is the last on the island to reopen. The other five international airports in the country did so on October 17th in an attempt to relaunch a tourist season devastated by the pandemic.
Between January and March 2020, when the borders were still open, Cuba received 189,466 tourists, a third (36.3%) of the arrivals recorded in the first quarter of 2019.
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