Mozambique and Angola have become the first two countries to benefit from the ‘Health Corridor’ aid of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), having received material, support, training and other resources this entity that brings together airlines announced on Thursday.
“Mozambique and Angola have become the first countries in the world to benefit from the ICAO’s ‘Sanitary Corridor’ implementation package, which is one of several pandemic recovery tools provided by the ICAO to national governments,” the organisation said.
In a statement, ICAO added that “the implementation packages have served as key counter-pandemic resources during the air transport sector’s recovery efforts” and is composed of “guidance material, expert support, training and other resources, corresponding to the latest recommendations of the ICAO Council’s working group on aviation recovery, the World Health Organization and other contributors to the ‘Testing Manual and Cross-Border Risk Management Measures’.”
This package said ICAO Secretary General Juan Carlos Salazar, quoted in the statement, “allows states to improve preparedness and responses to public health events, and more specifically to take steps to establish defined corridors between specific destinations that have comprehensive health and safety measures in place.”
The suite of measures have served as “key global pandemic resources during air transport recovery efforts, in areas including security risk management, passenger and cargo facilitation, aviation security and airport reopening,” the note reads.
“It is with great honour and pleasure that the Civil Aviation Authority of Mozambique has received this invitation to be part of the pioneering ICAO project called the ‘Sanitary Corridor’, together with Angola, a country with whom Mozambique has a long history of political and socio-cultural ties,” commented the president of the Civil Aviation Authority of Mozambique, João Martins de Abreu.
“Being chosen to be at the centre of precepts that will help other countries to better deal with situations similar to those the world is experiencing is a reason for satisfaction for our country, and once again we reiterate our commitment to the causes of civil aviation, and safeguarding the protection of professionals in our sector, as well as the population in general,” added the official.
