Hygiene and epidemiological measures in accordance with the recommendations of competent health authorities are being implemented at Sarajevo International Airport what makes travelling from Sarajevo airport and the stay at the same almost entirely safe when it comes to the possibility of a coronavirus infection.
Also, our partners, the airline companies make enormous efforts in ensuring the conditions in order to minimise the risk of spreading the infectious disease in the aircraft. All of this is confirmed even by statements by two leading, world organizations in the area of health and aviation. A director of the World Health Organization Health Emergencies Programme Mike Ryan believes that at this point, travelling is relatively safe and that it represents relatively low health risk.
Ryan explained that due to that, countries need to make compromises, because, a risk that a passenger comes and potentially starts a second chain of transmission is on the one side and an obvious benefit of travelling from the social and economic aspect is on the other side.
And clearly, the use of the tests is certainly now supposed to have a much larger place, compared to quarantine for example, which would certainly facilitate things considering all the efforts which have been made by airlines and by airports', stated the chairman of the board of WHO Emergency Committee, Didier Houssin. Also, please be reminded of the analysis conducted by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) according to which the chance to get infected by the coronavirus inflight is less than to be struck by the lighting. The research published by IATA stated that, only 44 cases of the coronavirus infection which were suspected to be transmitted inflight were reported in a period between January and July this year. At the same time, 1,2 billion passengers were flying at this time period.
Thus, IATA emphasizes that chances to get infected inflight are extremely low.
https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/pr/2020-09-08-012/
IATA claims that multiple safety measures against the coronavirus inflight are undertaken, including a high air flow rate and the use of medical HEPA filters, what makes the spread of the respiratory droplets less than in the other closed spaces.
'The combination of measures that are being put in place is reassuring travellers the world over that COVID-19 has not defeated their freedom to fly. Nothing is completely risk-free. But with just 44 published cases of potential inflight COVID-19 transmission among 1.2 billion travellers, the risk of contracting the virus on board appears to be in the same category as being struck by lightning,” said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s Director General.