Originally Posted by
rvlcr
interesting and worrying that they’re deploying this new testing strategy with no notice or announcement or anything? will be interesting if other airlines will do this too since it appears to be a maldives requirement not a qatar one. i suspect this will be quite difficult to orchestrate at other airports that may not have as good of a testing infrastructure
How odd for this rapid testing to be a brand new, unannounced Maldives requirement that Qatar is the first to implement? Are we sure this is a Maldives issue and not a Qatar issue? Does this mean it's "safer" to fly other airlines to Male else be subjected to a rapid test in transit at Doha with Qatar? What's the point of getting a negative PCR test in advance when the rapid test at the transit airport is going to negate it?