British Airways and Delta Airlines will require their passengers departing from the United Kingdom to New York to test negative for COVID-19, due to uncertainty surrounding a new variant of the virus, the virus said on Monday. Governor of New York.
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“From tomorrow, British Airways will require passengers on flights from the UK to New York to show a negative Covid test before departure,” Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted, adding that Delta was d ‘agreement to do the same.
The governor said he asked the company Virgin Atlantic to do the same. The company pledged to do so late Monday, according to an adviser to the governor.
New York, whose international flights arrive mainly at JF Kennedy and Newark airports, joins some 120 countries that have required negative tests for flights from the United Kingdom, according to Mr. Cuomo.
During a press briefing, the governor also estimated that the US federal authorities should suspend flights from the United Kingdom, as a series of other countries have already done.
The appearance of a new variant of the coronavirus in the United Kingdom has caused panic around the world. Dozens of capitals have canceled flights with this country, even if the World Health Organization wanted to be reassuring Monday by affirming that this new viral strain was “not out of control”.
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