Air Transport & COVID-19 Coronavirus

IATA is closely monitoring developments related to the Coronavirus outbreak in coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO) Secretariat, ICAO and the US Centers for Disease Control.

Operational guidelines from WHO 

Operational considerations for managing COVID-19 cases or outbreak in aviation (pdf) - 18 March 

Restarting aviation following COVID-19

Read more about the medical evidence for various strategies (pdf) - 6 August 2020

New guidance

Aircraft cleaning and disinfection during and post pandemic (pdf) Ed.1, 19 June 2020

Other Communicable Diseases

Measles 

Measles is still common in many parts of the world including some countries in Europe, Asia, the Pacific and Africa. Anyone who is not protected against measles is at risk of getting infected when traveling internationally.

For more information, please see the WHO advisory on Measles.

Ebola

The prolonged Ebola virus disease outbreak (the 10^th outbreak) in Kivu province, Eastern DRC, was declared over in mid-June, after achieving 42 days without a case; the last new case (in a resurgence) was on 27 April. The 10^th outbreak affected over 3300 people with over 2200 deaths. Intensive surveillance continues in Kivu as the potential remains for a re-emergence of the disease, as there are many animal reservoirs for the virus. Meanwhile the new (11^th ) outbreak of EVD in Équateur Province, which began in early June, continues to evolve, with new confirmed cases and deaths and unfortunately some suspected cases who are “at large” in the community. As of 25 July 2020, there are a total of 67 cases (63 confirmed and four probable) including 31 deaths (case fatality ratio 46.3%). The case fatality ratio among confirmed cases is 42.9% (27 deaths/63 confirmed cases). Three health workers are among the confirmed cases, making up 4.5% of all cases.