The United States will require that all international airline passengers to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test before boarding a flight to the country, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.
The country is in the midst of a spiking outbreak of the pandemic. In the last 39 days, Panama has registered more than a third (100,000 cases) of total infections and more than a quarter (1,326 cases) of total deaths.
The pandemic has caused some hospitals to stop receiving patients, while the authorities seek to enable and adapt different infrastructure to care for the sick.