The crisis of the spread of Contagious diseases and the role of national aviation in its containment

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Mehdi Aliyari ¹ (Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Sciences)

Received: 2023-10-01 Accepted : 2023-10-12 Published : 2023-12-10

Keywords: : International Civil Aviation, Contagious diseases, Healthy Right, ICAO, Air Transportation, Covid-19,

Abstract :

The international community was for more than three years embroiled in a health-biological catastrophe caused by Cuvid-19 disease, which has probably spread due to the inherent speed of air transport and has seriously endangered the health of the world's people and unprecedently reduce or stopped all activities, including air transport activates around the world and sent many people into the jaws of death. Undoubtedly, civil aviation has long been recognized as the fastest means of transportation and commercial transfer within and beyond national borders and it has often been used as a means of appeasing people, especially in providing relief to communities in distress, whether natural disasters, famines, diseases, or wars. In other words, air transport has played two opposite roles in this type of crisis in the last two decades in two different directions: First - to accelerate the transmission of epidemic and pandemic diseases; Second, to play a positive role in managing and controlling disease due to having a previous plan for the readiness and sustainability of global aviation in a critical situation. This paper seeks to explain the above duplicate with analytical and descriptive view with library and field method in the context of international aviation law. it seems civil aviation effects on control and outbreak of Contagious diseases

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