Apple Maps has began displaying COVID-19 airport journey steering to iPhone, iPad, and Mac customers to allow them to simply entry native airport well being necessities together with face coverings, well being exams, or screenings, and quarantine tips. The information has been sourced from the Airports Council International (ACI) for main airports throughout the globe, together with key ones in India. Users merely have to seek for an airport in Apple Maps to take a look at its COVID-19 journey steering and native well being necessities.
Using the info from the ACI, Apple Maps is displaying COVID-19 journey steering for greater than 300 airports worldwide. These embody Kempegowda International Airport (Bengaluru), Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (Mumbai), Indira Gandhi International Airport (New Delhi), Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (Hyderabad), and Chandigarh International Airport (Chandigarh).
Apple Maps present whether or not the listed airports have sure journey steering with respect to COVID-19, comparable to masks necessities, well being screenings, and quarantine tips. You can examine this steering on the airport place card by looking out a selected airport on the Apple Maps app.
“Having this information displayed in Apple Maps will help to make this crucial data much more broadly accessible to passengers,” mentioned ACI World Director General Luis Felipe de Oliveira, in a press release. “This will help passengers to plan their journeys and be reassured that their health and safety remains a priority for the industry as we all work towards a sustained return to operations and global connectivity.”
The ACI has additionally made the airport steering information accessible by way of an API that builders can combine inside their apps. The listing of all taking part airports is offered by way of the ACI’s Check & Fly software.
Earlier this month, Apple Maps began displaying COVID-19 vaccination centres within the US. Apple additionally added to its mapping app numerous testing places and COVID-19 associated data on the place playing cards of over 4,400 retailers globally.
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