Governments have not received calls from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) for the lifting of quarantines with much enthusiasm or responsiveness, despite the group’s persistent efforts to draw attention to scientific evidence of the ineffectiveness of such restrictions, IATA director general Alexandre de Juniac conceded Tuesday. Speaking during the latest of a series of media briefings on Covid-19 effects on the industry, de Juniac expressed some frustration with governments’ failure to respond to a recent study by EASA and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) that called for states to treat travelers in the same way they treat members of the local populations who have not had any direct contact with a person infected with Covid-19. He did, however, concede that the methods of rapid testing that IATA recommends taking the place of quarantines remain comparatively immature, a point that he said might explain authorities’ slow response.
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