Challenges of SARS-CoV-2 prevention in flights, suggested solutions with potential on-site diagnosis resembling cancer biomarkers and urgency of travel medicine

A. Shaimoldina, Y.-Q. Xie

Biology Department, Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. yingqiu.xie@nu.edu.kz

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• Infectious Diseases

OBJECTIVE: The current pandemic makes the international flights facing multiple challenges including infection during flights. Here the objective is to analyze the infection trend of flights from a regional data set and discuss the solutions for diagnosis and travel medicine.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The public data was applied for trend analysis and new solutions were provided based on the current diagnosis information and resembling cancer diagnosis.

RESULTS: Flights infection has decreased since the large-scale cease of flights. Challenges of prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection in flights exist due to testing accuracy, asymptomatic and many other factors including people gathering. To avoid the pandemic worsen, the solutions are provided for new coming flight resumes. Hotel, mandatory PPE, airport diagnosis, rapid imaging/biomarker diagnosis by advanced high-technology and emergency-travel medicine department are suggested as solutions.

CONCLUSIONS: SARS-CoV-2 prevention in flights needs multiple solutions by potential on-site diagnosis and urgent establishment of a travel medicine unit at airport.

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