Most African nations have either kept their borders closed since the pandemic began to spread or reopened with tight restrictions
A man wearing a hazmat suit leaves a mobile testing station for at Pan Africa Mall in Alexandra, Johannesburg. File photo: THULANI MBELE
The African Union and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention are encouraging member states to integrate the mobile-based PanaBIOS platform that would allow results from facilities across the continent to be centralised. So far, only Ghana is using the service. . Some require multiple negative coronavirus tests and, in some cases, self-isolation at a designated hotel at the expense of the traveler. Ghana, which resumed international flights Tuesday, still requires a pre-arrival and on-arrival test to gain entry.
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