Merida International Airport will lose its flight to Houston, and many CDMX routes, for the time being.Photo: Flickr
The Mérida international airport has a Plan B for American travelers who overlooked US screening rules.
Air passengers need to prove they recently tested negative for coronavirus before being allowed to board a flight. That rule already applies to Canadians and begin for Americans next week.
A new airport-based COVID-19 testing service will serve passengers who are lacking documentation of a negative blood test, said the regional director of Grupo Asur, Héctor Navarrete Muñoz.
The airport COVID test site can deliver written results in a maximum of half an hour and costs no more than testing elsewhere, he said.
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The facility only serves US travelers. It was authorized by the American consulate and will be coordinated by the state Health Secretariat. Canada has required negative blood-test results since Jan. 6, but is not connected to the airport program.
Domestic flights do not require blood tests.
Lee Steele is the founding director of Mérida-based Roof Cat Media S de RL de CV and has published Yucatán Magazine and other titles since 2012. He was Hearst Connecticut’s Sunday Magazine creative director and worked in New York City for various magazine publishers, including Condé Nast and Primedia, for over 20 years.
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