Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 18th April 2024 Issue no. 1110
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Sheremetyevo Airport implements extensive set of measures to contain Coronavirus spread
SIA JSC, the manager of Sheremetyevo International Airport, is taking what it says are unprecedented measures to prevent the importation and spread of Covid-19 infection in the territory of the Russian Federation.
The Airport is closely adhering to all the directives and recommendations of the Russian Government's emergency response headquarters in charge of preventing the importation and spread of the novel coronavirus in the territory of the Russian Federation.
Ensuring that the airport does not become a point for introduction of new cases into Russia and safeguarding the health & safety of the passengers and staff are the top priorities for the airport, it says.
Given the reduced passenger traffic and new restrictions imposed on international air travel, some terminals E and C have closed and passengers arriving undergo health checks. Preventive measures begin on board the aircraft, where officers of the Federal Consumer Supervision Service check passengers' condition using remote thermal-imaging cameras. The most stringent inspection is conducted at the exit from the passenger ramp into the arrival area with stationary thermal-imaging cameras. Final-stage screening is conducted in the baggage reclaim area by officers of the Department of Healthcare of Moscow, the Ministry of Healthcare of Moscow Oblast, the Federal Consumer Supervision Service and the medical and sanitary department of SIA JSC.
Temperatures are taken for all passengers and crew members who arrive in Moscow, and biological samples are collected for the subsequent test for Covid-19. All arrivals must also fill out about their recent physical condition and recent travels.
Medical personnel also carefully examine passengers for signs of illness. Passengers who are running a fever or present with cold or flu-like symptoms are taken to isolation wards in the medical stations of the airport and then to hospitals specializing in the treatment of infectious diseases. There are two medical crews from the center for emergency medicine of the Moscow Oblast on duty at the airport at all times.
Sheremetyevo Airport has organised full-scale notification of passengers about ways to prevent the spread of the virus. Voice announcements are being broadcast over the PA system in the terminals about preventative measures as well as about the procedure for getting tested for it on airport premises. Passengers in all the baggage claim areas are notified that their temperature is being taken using remote heat sensors at the airport. Up-to-date information on the recommendations of the Consumer Supervision Service on how to combat COVID-19 is carried at all the information desks and on the electronic displays across the airport.
500,000 medical masks have been purchased for staff. All staff involved in providing services to passengers are issued with medical masks and gloves.
Dispensers of liquid disinfectant have been placed in all utility spaces to allow staff to wash their hands at every opportunity. Staff regularly have their body temperature checked using stationary and mobile heat sensors at the terminals as well as at all medical stations and in the polyclinic of the Medical and Sanitary Department of SIA JSC.
Sheremetyevo Airport has expanded efforts to decontaminate all premises. The strictest measures are being put in place in the terminal that is currently serving flights arriving from countries with large numbers of Covid-19 cases. Special surface covers soaked in de-contaminants have been placed in every jet bridge in the terminal. All the premises of the airport undergo regular cleaning with special decontaminants and disinfectants, and the frequency of clean-ups with water and disinfectants has been increased.
SIA JSC plans to continue to implement all measures that might be necessary to prevent the virus from being brought into Russia and from being spread in the country. The measures aimed at checking passengers and staff and at improved disinfection of the airport premises will continue until special orders are received from the Government and the emergency response headquarters for the prevention of Covid-19 in the territory of Russia.
26th March 2020