New rapid Covid-19 test for Abu Dhabi travelers arriving at airport

  ABU DHABI – All arriving passengers at Abu Dhabi International Airport will undergo free rapid Covid-19 PCR testing that can give results in 90 minutes, according to Abu Dhabi Airports. Abu Dhabi Airports launched the quick PCR test on Tuesday (March 9) to facilitate air travel procedures and support quarantine tracking procedures. The new Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) testing process is free for arriving passengers and offers results in 90 minutes. It will not be available to transit passengers. The state-of-the-art laboratory at the airport has the capacity to test more than 20,000 travellers and staff per day.

How rapid Covid-19 PCR test works at Abu Dhabi Airport

All passengers arriving at Abu Dhabi International Airport through both terminals 1 and 3 will be tested at the AUH PCR testing facility. Results of the Covid-19 tests will be shared by SMS and WhatsApp, as well as being available on the Alhosn mobile application. Passengers can leave the airport once they have finalised the PCR test processes. Passengers who receive a negative PCR test and are arriving from the list of “green' countries outlined by the government of Abu Dhabi, will not have to self-isolate. Those arriving from countries not on the “green” list will have to self-isolate for a period of ten days, and will require a quarantine wristband fitted at the PCR testing tent attached to the airport. Passengers transiting through the airport will not be tested prior to departing for their final destinations. In addition, the airport has deployed touch-less elevator technology, SterixEco Gates sterilisation tunnels, thermal scanning cameras, as well cameras with facial recognition capabilities that alert staff if passengers or visitors to the airport are displaying symptoms of Covid-19 or not wearing facemasks. ICA/Expat Media
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