As aviation has almost come to a complete halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, it is essential to find a way in which to resume the international aviation system, taking into consideration public health requirements. Therefore, the CAPSCA Programme has developed a strategy known as the Public Health Corridor Concept. This strategy describes how to manage, from an aviation perspective, essential flights that would ‎allow aircraft and crew to perform with minimal additional burdens, ‎while maintaining flight safety and preventing the transmission of COVID-19.

This webinar presents ‎the key elements of this strategy to ensure, as far as possible, the use of "clean" crew, ‎‎"clean" aircraft, and "clean" airport facilities to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 through air ‎travel. The key elements include the implementation of operational and health measures, as well as disinfection and ‎segregation procedures, to ensure that persons carrying COVID-19 will not be allowed on flights.‎

Presenter: Dr. Ansa Jordaan, Chief of the Aviation Medicine Section at ICAO.

Originally presented 11 May 2020.