Can Airport Testing And COVID Immunity Passports Unlock Travel?
In the current COVID-created travel maze, passengers face constantly shifting rules as airports, countries and even airlines impose their own restrictions on who can cross international borders.
(CNN) — In the current COVID-created travel maze, passengers face constantly shifting rules as airports, countries and even airlines impose their own restrictions on who can cross international borders.
Testing has been adopted by various places as a key to allowing transit, leading to more widespread calls from the travel industry to use this to facilitate the return to a more normal flow of passenger traffic.
Travelers too favor testing. According to a recent SmartBrief for the Business Traveler poll, more than 65% think a test should be required to travel.
But is testing -- and the introduction of so-called COVID immunity passports that show when someone has recovered from the infection -- really the key to getting the world in the move again?
The answer, of course, isn't simple.