Children between the ages of five and 12 years will now be required to undergo a mandatory Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) screening upon arrival at Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
Per the new directive children who fall in this age bracket would not be required to pay any fee for the test.
However, children below five years are exempted from the test at the airport.
Other passengers outside this age bracket must pay $150 for the antigen test carried out at the upper arrival hall of the Terminal Three of KIA by Frontier Health Care.
The directive by the management of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) is part of the enhance measures by the government to ensure the fight against the spread of the virus through importation is prevented.
The updated COVID-19 guidelines for KIA published by GACL which takes effect on November 16 indicted that “children between the ages of five and 12 years will undergo testing on arrival free of charge.”
The decision to include children in the age bracket indicated follows rising positive COVID-19 cases recorded among in-bound passengers at KIA and within the general population.
Imported cases of COVID-19, detected by screening all arriving passengers, has gone up by 87 per cent, increasing from 92 to 172 between mid-October and November 6.
A total of 54,000 arriving international passengers had been screened with 172 positive cases recorded as of November 6.
KIA on September 1, was reopened for commercial and international passenger flights, five months after it closed its gates to the world as part of the restrictions on movement to contain the spread of the virus in the country.
Source:Fiilafmonline/CitiNews
