“After that, we will continue to invest in the information that is given to the passengers that come in on these flights, particularly if they do develop symptoms, they know exactly what they can do,” he said.
In addition, we are working on a different kind of action, you have to find out and understand where the plane is, is that each and every passenger travelled in, and who were the people that were in the queue in front, behind and to the side, this is because the prices of these flights can be to bring in someone who is sick,” said Grace Stevens.
“We all have the days or nearly every day we detect the cases [de covid-19] they came in on these flights,” he said to the guardian.
And it is to do this by screening people who were in the back,” someone with which they are to be distributed on paper to fill in the information, which will later be replaced by “cards, e-forms, the most resourceful,” the log of the data, said Grace Stevens.
The director-general of Health, said of the measure, then, is to work in the “troubleshooting ” in the electronic” to “facilitate the logistics and to be able to find a passenger with someone who is in the Uk, and from that you can find if you were the people who traveled on the plane near them.”
“It’s a lot of work that is being done at the moment to make it easier for the airline companies, the passengers and the officials”, noted the guardian.
While the filling is made of paper, this work is at an early stage, focusing on the countries most at risk, and with the highest activity of the epidemic, but once it’s available, an electronic system, and easy-to-access, will be extended to all flights”, he concluded, Grace Stevens.
The multi-covid-19 and has already resulted in more than 426 thousand people dead and infected more than 7.6 million people in 196 countries and territories worldwide.
In the Uk, died in 1.512 the people of the 36.463 confirmed to be infected, according to the most recent newsletter from the Directorate-General of Health.
[[News updated at 17h20]
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