Spanish airport operator Aena will lease out areas for COVID-19 testing clinics in 15 airports' departure lounges, including in Madrid and Barcelona, the company said on Friday as it seeks to help facilitate travel in the pandemic era.
The diagnostic facilities will provide quick PCR, antigenic and serological tests to detect both active infections and the presence of COVID-19 antibodies, and will have isolation areas for travellers awaiting their results.
Spain's Aena sets up COVID-19 testing clinics in 15 airports
The testing clinics will be set up for an initial six-month period
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Did the testing ever get set up???? I need a Rapid Test no older than 4 hours before I board to Amsterdam in a week, and it's an overnight layover in BCN where I won't be allowed to cross the border and get tested in the city. I have to be able to get tested in the airside terminal.
Maybe this will help, if the type of tests, speed, and price work with countries adopting testing before arrival schemes at least. About time as well, after AENA spent the last 10 months refusing to get involved with testing.