Enhanced Health Screenings as China Confirms Coronavirus Outbreak: It was confirmed yesterday that Chinese authorities are battling to contain an outbreak of the coronavirus that’s sweeping the country.
The respiratory virus is being treated as a public health emergency after it claimed the lives of nine people and infected over 400.
The virus can be passed between humans and originated in Wuhan, Chinese authorities are urging members of the public to avoid the city, the gateway to which is Wuhan Tianhe International Airport (ZHHH).
This week, China celebrates Chinese New Year and begins a period of extensive travel for its citizens.
Countries are responding with stricter health screenings of airplane passengers arriving from Wuhan.
In the US, federal health officials are expanding the screening of passengers arriving from Wuhan at five major international hubs with all travelers from the city required to pass through one of these five airports.
They are New York’s Kennedy International Airport, San Francisco International and Los Angeles International, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International and Chicago’s O’Hare International.
India has expanded the thermal screening of passengers arriving from China (including Hong Kong) to seven airports: Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Cochin, Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata.
Hong Kong has announced it is enhancing checks on arrivals to include passengers from the Hubei province, not just Wuhan.
Airport authorities in Japan, Thailand, Singapore, and South Korea have also intensified health screenings of passengers from Wuhan.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has issued this advice for international travelers to protect themselves from infection:
Avoid close contact with people suffering from respiratory infections
Wash your hands frequently, especially after direct contact with unwell people and their environments
Avoid contact with farm or wild animals that are alive or dead
Practice cough etiquette – maintain distance, cover coughs and sneezes with disposable tissues or clothing, and wash hands afterward
Operators planning missions to or from China are strongly advised to consult their trip support partner for the latest updates.
For support with your flight operations to China, contact UAS China.
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Mitch is the CEO of 30 West IP where he is also an instructor providing pilot training on international procedures. With an illustrious career of over 34 years in the cockpit, Mitch has acquired over 13,000 hours of flight time flying worldwide, with over 9,000 hours of this in Challenger and Gulfstream aircraft. He is an experienced safety officer and was also an IS-BAO project manager for a fortune 500 flight department. He has presented on Safety and Operations topics at the NBAA International Operators Conference and the Canadian Business Aviation Association Convention and is currently on the NBAA International Operators Committee and serves as the North Atlantic Regional Lead. Mitch is also a member of an FAA working group on General Aviation International Authorizations and Tabletop Exercises (GIATE). He was recently selected to represent IBAC as a member of the ICAO Personal Training and Licensing Panel (PTLP) and was also recently named as a 2020 recipient of the NBAA Tony Kern Professionalism in Aviation Award for his contribution to the business aviation community.
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Director Of Operations, Americas, UAS International Trip Support
Duke has been a dearly respected member of UAS Americas team and the UAS global family for more than five years. A safety-oriented, FAA-licensed aircraft dispatcher, he oversees all of the operations of the elite UAS Operations Team. With twenty-five years of experience in aviation overall with more than fifteen years of experience in international flight planning and VVIP trip coordination, he is responsible for the development of the dispatch training program and involved in the strategic development of UAS Americas. With a myriad of rich aviation experience behind him, he has extensive experience in worldwide operations with both corporate and charter environments, including seven years as Operations/Dispatch Manager in an industry-leading, Fortune 500, IS-BAO Stage III Certified corporate flight department. Duke is frequently asked shares his knowledge at major industry events and is currently serving on the NBAA’s International Operators Conference (IOC) Planning Committee.
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