(EFE).- Since the end of January, Cuba will ask all travelers entering the country to fill out an online form with personal and health data up to 48 hours before their trip, the island’s authorities reported Thursday.
The measure was published this Thursday in the Official Gazette and will enter into force from the first minute of January 23, said Rita María García, director of Air Transport and International Relations of the Institute of Civil Aeronautics of Cuba, at a press conference.
The registration will be done on the D’Viajeros platform -which was already operating in the test phase- and in which 1.7 million travelers have registered so far.
The option of physically filling out the form at the airport of arrival, until now possible, will no longer be available
The option of physically filling out the form at the airport of arrival, previously possible, will no longer be available.
“The implementation of the form being filled out in advance by the traveler on the online platform minimizes physical contact, reducing their stay in the epidemiological surveillance line and avoiding crowds,” argued Carmelo Trujillo, head of the Sanitary Control Department of the Ministry of Public Health.
Once the form is completed, which will include questions about a possible close contact of covid-19, the platform will generate a QR code that will be requested from the traveler when they check-in at the airport of origin and when they land in Cuban territory.
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