Starting today,

people arriving in Spain from risk countries by plane or boat will have to undergo a mandatory PCR

to enter.

This measure, which some European countries are already demanding since this summer, was approved by Health less than 10 days ago in order to avoid imported infections.

In Spanish airports, passengers will be required to present

a negative PCR test carried out within 72 hours prior to arrival in the country.

Those who arrive without proof may be tested for antigens at the aerodromes but may be fined.

The risk countries are determined by the travel risk map that the Government will update every fifteen days.

Today, practically all of Europe is in the red zone

.

Since the borders were opened after the end of the spring lockdown, Aena has already carried out controls on passengers.

There are temperature controls (it is done through a thermal camera, so the passenger does not know it) and there are medical personnel who carry out a visual control to verify that there are no passengers who present suspicious symptoms, at first glance.

Controls

In addition, in order to track possible positives, a documentary control is carried out.

All passengers have to fill out a health control form

containing their data and in which they declare they have no symptoms or have been in contact with a positive.

As a novelty, this form will now include a question about whether you have a negative PCR carried out within 72 hours prior to arrival in our country.

Aena already had spaces inside the airports where it referred both passengers with symptoms

and those who, in the form, state they had been in contact with infected people.

In the first case, for example,

if someone has a fever, they are referred to this space where tests are carried out to rule out that it is Covid.

The second case occurs above all "in health personnel, who declare in the form to have been in contact with patients. In that case, it is clarified and it is verified that everything is in order," explain sources from Aena.

Reinforcement

These spaces have been expanded to be able to carry out controls and tests for those who do not bring it.

The members of Foreign Health will be in charge of verifying it.

In addition to these rooms,

there are other isolation spaces for people who can give a positive result in this antigen test

and a new secondary control point has been established for, if there is no type of documentation to complete.

If the passenger tests negative for the antigens, they will be able to continue their trip normally,

and if they test positive, the health alert protocols established in coordination with the autonomous communities will be activated, in order to be referred to a health center.

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