KAMPALA (UGANDA) – Uganda said on Thursday it would reopen its only international airport, opening services of commercial flights on October 1. This has come after more than five months of shutdown.
This is the latest step among a series of actions by the government of President Yoweri Museveni.
Spokesman for the country’s state-run Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Vianney Lugya, said of Entebbe International Airport, “We’re preparing to open for resumption of flights on October 1.”
Lugya said as it is preparing to reopen, a slew of new procedures have been lined up to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the airport. The passengers who would be arriving would be required to have a coronavirus-free certificate issued from their countries of origin and received 72 hours before travel.
He said all airlines that operate out of the airport, including among others KLM, Turkish Airlines, Emirates, Brussels Airlines, Kenya Airways, have been intimated.
