Preventive measures for guests – the Turkish best practice
Friday, 17 July 2020
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Preventive Measures for the Guests
- Passengers and other people arriving at airports will be rendered services under the rules and guidelines set out for prevention and containment of COVID-19.
- In the airports, before passport control, each arriving passenger will go through thermal screening for temperature checks.
- In the case where a passenger is suspected to have COVID-19, the passenger will be put under quarantine in an isolated area inside the airport to be tested.
- If there are no negative symptoms detected with regards to COVID-19, the passenger will leave the airport following specified rules.
- If the passenger whose sample is taken for PCR test displays serious symptoms, he/she will be taken into an isolation room for 2 hours to wait for the PCR test results. If the result is positive, the passenger will be sent to a hospital to be treated
- After passenger getting transferred to the hospital, he/she decides whether to be treated in hospital or hotel
- If the isolation period lasts longer than the planned holiday, the extra accommodation costs will be covered by the hotel in exchange for a Promise Letter
- If the passenger does not wish to spend the isolation period in Turkey and wishes to return to his/her country, it is at airline’s or captain’s discretion to allow that passenger on board
- Passengers may buy health insurance packages before arriving at Turkey, online
- If the passenger becomes symptomatic after arriving at the hotel, he/she will be taken to the hospital
- If the passenger who had been taken to the hospital tests positive, the same procedures implemented at the airport will be followed
- If the passenger’s country requires a certain quarantine period for its citizens upon their return, the passenger may get tested at 135 testing areas across the country or designated testing areas located inside the airport before passport control and fly back to his/her country with the test result. The test costs 15 €
- In order for the guest to be treated in our country, he/she has to accept the treatment methodology and drug protocol applied in our country