Migration and Border Health: Considerations for Health Screening for COVID-19 at Points of Entry | NLM

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Migration and Border Health: Considerations for Health Screening for COVID-19 at Points of Entry

06/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 6/23/2020. This guidance is meant to assist Ministries of Health and their point-of-entry (POE) partners in determining whether and how to conduct traveler screening at POE for coronavirus (COVID-19). The objective of screening is to reduce the international spread of communicable disease by detecting departing travelers who are sick or who have been exposed to the disease and preventing them from leaving the country they are in (exit screening) or by detecting them upon arrival and directing them to appropriate care and follow-up, as needed (entry screening). (Text)