SAA HAS implemented new
procedures for passengers who
“must travel between South
Africa and the Ebola high-risk areas in
West Africa”, which include obtaining
permission from the National
Department of Health.
“The South African Government has
advised travellers to avoid all nonessential
travel to and from Liberia,
Guinea or Sierra Leone. However,
where travel is absolutely essential,
permission must be obtained from
the relevant authority,” said SAA
spokesperson, Tlali Tlali.
In cases where travel between
South Africa and the affected high-risk
areas is unavoidable, the following
procedures must be followed:
All intending travellers must request
permission to travel from South
Africa to the high risk areas or from
the high risk areas to South Africa;
Permission to travel must be sought
from the National Department of
Health;
All requests from travellers must be
addressed to the director-general:
Health, for the attention of Dr Frew
Benson and sent to the following
address: Nathoc1@health.gov.za
and Nathoc2@health.gov.za; Tel:
(012) 395-9367 or (012) 395-9366.
The following information must
be provided when requesting
permission to travel:
Full personal details, including
residential addresses of South
African citizens or in the case of
non-South Africans, the address of
residence while in South Africa (e.g.
hotel);
Next of kin details in the case of
South African citizens;
Full details of the reasons for travel
to or from South Africa;
The traveller must complete a
Traveller Health Questionnaire and
submit it with the request to travel;
A written response from the
National Department of Health will
be provided informing the applicant
of the outcome of their request to
travel.
“The travel restriction does not
apply to all five destinations – Benin,
Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and
Senegal – that SAA flies to in West
Africa. None of them fall under highrisk
category. Our schedule to those
destinations remains unaffected,”
Tlali said.
New procedures for travel to Ebola- Affected areas
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