Passengers wearing facemasks as a preventive measure against COVID 19, board a flight to the central Chinese city of Wuhan, at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai on July 14, 2020. PHOTO AFP BEIJING - China has taken more rigorous measures to ensure safe plane trips for travelers while stemming the spread of COVID - 19, said the Civil Aviation Administration of China CAAC on Monday.
The CAAC identified two groups of airport staff members as high risk and the other under close monitoring based on their risk levels of spreading COVID - 19. Kong Fanwei, an official with the CAAC, told a press conference that they must take daily nucleic acid tests, and the rest of the staff every other day.
Kong said that the administration will ensure that passengers are kept apart at safe distances and that there will be no crowding at the airport and on planes.
It will also strengthen closed-loop management to separate domestic flights from international flights, and improve COVID 19 testing mechanisms at airports.
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Kong said that the country has suspended 768 international flights this year to contain the transmission of the virus.