The Ghana Airports Company has announced that, airlines who board passengers without PCR test result or transport and disembark passengers with positive PCR test results in Accra will be fined $3,500 per passenger.
According to the Ghana Airports Company’s latest covid-19 guidelines, the new guidelines will take effect 6pm today 22nd September, 2020.
The statement which was cited by the Vaultz News said that, non-Ghanaians may be refused entry and returned to the point where they embarked from, at a cost to the airline.
It also said that, a 14-days mandatory quarantine at a facility approved by the government will be subjected to Ghanaians who will be allowed entry at their personal cost. Arriving passengers will however undergo temperature screening.
The statement also said that, Passengers will then be subjected to a mandatory COVID-19 test at the airport terminal at a cost of $150 to be borne by the passenger but any passenger who refuses to pay to undergo the COVID-19 test will be subjected to the seizure of his or her passport and will be handed to state security agencies.
Also, Ghanaian residents who depart Ghana and return within one week will not be required to present COVID-19 report from the country of departure.
Passengers who test positive upon arrival will however receive further clinical assessment and treatment but passengers who test negative will be advised to continue to observe covid-19 safety precautions, following arrival in Ghana.
Moving on to transit passengers, any passenger transiting and transferring through Accra will not be required to take the COVID-19 test in Accra but will however be required to adhere to COVID-19 testing requirement for the destination countries.
For departing passengers, all international departing passengers will be required to adhere to covid-19 testing requirement for the destination countries.
The statement touching on exemptions said that, airline crews are exempted from the pre-departure and arrival from COVID-19 testing. But they must do well to follow the airline policy for testing.
Read the full statement below:
