Airlines can’t afford to wait for vaccine: IATA

Bloomberg

The airline industry can’t afford to wait for a vaccine. That’s the message from the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) chief medical adviser, David Powell.
On top of face masks, regular hand washing and sanitising of high-touch surfaces, carriers should work with regulators to introduce reliable coronavirus testing systems for passengers before they board in order to get people back on planes.
“The ideal protection is to avoid people who are infectious,” Powell said in an interview. “We need a test that’s reliable and fast enough and that’s able to be done in huge numbers.”