IATA: Muita complexidade na maneira como as fronteiras estão sendo reabertas

Simplified Risk Management 

A recent survey of the top 50 travel markets, accounting for 92% of global traffic, reveals an urgent need for simplification of the various measures governments are using to manage the risks of COVID-19. 

“There is far too much complexity in the way borders are re-opening. The potential for a global re-connect could be hijacked by bureaucracies favoring stand-alone “made-at-home” solutions over approaches that work across borders,” said Walsh.   

The survey findings include the following: 

Very few states are truly open: 

• Of the 50 states surveyed, 38 have some form of COVID-19 restriction on who can enter. Only seven had no entry restrictions or quarantine requirements upon arrival. A further five have no additional restriction on who can enter but maintain quarantine measures for some after arrival. 

There is no consistency among the 38 states which retain entry restrictions:

Twenty states exempt or foresee exemptions from restrictions in various forms for vaccinated travelers, but

• Only six are confirmed to exempt minors (who are unable to be vaccinated in most markets) when they travel with vaccinated adults. And there is no consistency on the age definition of minors. 
• Nine states do not recognize the full WHO list of vaccines.
• There are at least five different definitions for the point after inoculation at which vaccines are considered to be effective .
• There is no agreement on the duration of the validity period for a traveler to be considered vaccinated.

Only four states (Germany, France, Switzerland, and Austria) recognize immunity resulting from previous COVID-19 infection as equivalent to vaccination

• There is no consistency on what is needed to prove prior infection.