Now domestic flights are running again, passengers must be tested 36 hours before taking off and show a negative test certificate before boarding.
To make things easier, two walk-in testing centres have opened in Yangon— one at the Tourist Burma building in downtown’s Kyauktada Township and the other in North Okkalapa’s Aung Mingalar Express Station.
For 10,000 kyats (US$7) you can get a rapid diagnostic test that gives the result in 30 minutes, or a more accurate lab-based PCR test, which takes one day for the result, costs 35,000 kyats ($25), according to state media.
Passengers are banned from taking food on-board the plane and the two rows of seats near the cabin crew seats should be kept empty. Those arriving from stay-at-home townships (i.e. most of Yangon region) will be quarantined and then tested again if their destination is not under stay-at-home orders.
State media did not clarify the length of quarantine, but government officials have said 14 days. If both the townships of departure and arrival are under the orders, quarantine is not necessary. Likewise, passengers do not need to quarantine if they are travelling from an open township to a stay-at-home township.
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