Only Six Flights a day from 23 /8/20

[wanderer]

The Communicable Diseases Supreme Committee took some urgent decisions today. The daily number of flights is 6 flights; The daily number of passengers coming to Kyrenia Port is limited to 250 passengers. The number of people is limited to indoor and outdoor entertainment. It is mandatory to wear a mask at weddings. The decisions of the Communicable Diseases Supreme Committee are exactly as follows: 1. Limiting the number of daily flights to 6 flights starting from 24:00 on 23 August, 2020. (Except private aircraft) 2. Limiting the number of passengers to be brought by 2 companies carrying passengers to Kyrenia Port daily to 125 + 125 = 250 passengers. (Except for private yachts) From 24:00 on 23 August, 2020 Quarantine the employees of Taş Yapı İnşaat Company, which is doing the construction of the 3rd airport, within the construction site. 4. Restricting the number of people for outdoor entertainment to 100 people. In closed areas, the number of people; Maximum 50 people in places of 200 m2 and above Maximum 30 people in places between 100-200 m2 Maximum 20 people in places between 50-100 m2 It is limited to a maximum of 10 people in places under 50 m2. 5. It is mandatory to wear a mask at weddings, pay attention to social distance, handshake and no contact.

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[wanderer]

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[forestpixie]

Maybe now only 3 flights a day! Not very helpful and all those poor people now jobless

[ardstrawray]

The government want to boost the economy, but will not let the people into the country able to spend money.

[Keithcaley]

I understand the reasoning behind the 6 planes a day limit is to ensure that the passengers on one plane can be PCR tested, processed and cleared from the airport before the next plane arrives.

If a plane arrives before the previous set of passengers are cleared, then the new arrivals have to wait on the plane until the staff are ready for them.

Bear in mind that they only have two trained nurses on staff at the airport at any one time!

If they can get more trained staff, they may well increase the throughput, and thereby enable more planes and passengers per day.

It's strictly a safety precaution.

[PoshinDevon]

Would be useful to know what airline and airport in Turkey and what times these flights would depart. There would then be a chance of getting a PCR test within the specified timeframe, booking a flight from the U.K. to Turkey with a reasonable connection time onto Ercan.

Understand the reasoning behind the decision but throws more confusion into the mix. I can see PCR tests not being valid if you leave the U.K. and are stuck for many hours in Turkey trying to get or are waiting for a connection to Ercan.

[wanderer]

I've just got a refund on my TA tickets its getting too complicated PCR test +bar codes flights reduces hopefully TA will pickup the spare slots

Fly to Antalya Jet2 or whoever book a hotel and PCR test

[forestpixie]

The government want to boost the economy, but will not let the people into the country able to spend money.

Agreed

[Keithcaley]

Would you prefer that they let in larger numbers of people despite the lack of resources to ensure that they can do so safely?

I would agree that they should do everything in their power to safely increase capacity, but I can't argue with the principle which is currently guiding their actions.

[sophie]

I can understand peoples frustration, but agree 100% with KC, I would much prefer fewer people come in (but thoroughly tested and safe) rather than more people coming in with money to burn, but possibly unsafe to do so.

[The indicator]

My issue is how can all these passengers test positive on landing yet they had a negative PCR to fly.
We and few others had to do 14 days quarantine because of a passenger sitting next to us who tested positive at Ercan.
About time they brought in the QR code so they can be verified that the tests are actually negative.

[Keithcaley]

My issue is how can all these passengers test positive on landing yet they had a negative PCR to fly.

Because no test is 100% accurate, so that even if the disease is sufficiently developed, you may still get a proportion of 'false negatives', and also because of the stipulation of testing 72 to 96 hours before arrival, the disease will have had at least another 3 days to develop - possibly 5 days.

That's why they do another test on arrival, and then random testing towards the end of the 7 day isolation.

Multiple testing makes up for the inadequacies of the basic test, it's not perfect, it's not ideal, but it's all that we've got!