Baghdad International Airport was reopened today, Thursday, to scheduled commercial flights, after months of closures during the Covid-19 epidemic, which has particularly severe in recent weeks.
The airport is restarting with measures aimed at ensuring that the virus that causes the virus is not spread.
A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said that some passengers traveling from the airport would have to take a smear test a few days before traveling, and that all passengers arriving must take a test two days before boarding flights to Baghdad.
Passenger temperature is measured when they arrive at the airport, with guidelines for social spacing applied in stages such as checking passports but not while traveling on board.
Iraq suspended all flights out of Baghdad and arriving in March, and only non-scheduled flights or charter flights were conducted, with prior permission, before travel. These measures were accompanied by the closure of land borders and a curfew.