El Salvador ready to reopen its airport after lockdown

El Salvador's airports resumed commercial flights on Saturday after six months of travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Incoming passengers have been required to show a negative PCR coronavirus test no more than three days old.

The country's Supreme Court has warned President Nayib Bukele and authorities they cannot prevent Salvadorans or permanently resident foreigners from entering the country without negative COVID-19 evidence.

But despite the warning, the country's Director-General of Migration Ricardo Cucalón, said on Saturday all passengers must be tested.

El Salvador was the first Central America country to cancel commercial flights on March 17.

Oscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport, 44km south of San Salvador, reopened after the suspension with 20% of its capacity for flights to 13 destinations in Central and North America.

According to reports from the Ministry of Health, in the last 41 days El Salvador has recorded a decline in coronavirus cases after it reached its highest daily total of 449 on August 9.

The country has so far accumulated 27,428 infections and 808 deaths linked to COVID-19.

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