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The Argentine government decided to prohibit the arrival, for an indefinite period, of flights from Chile, Brazil and Mexico as of this Saturday, as part of a group of measures that seek to contain the Covid-19 pandemic by the neighboring country, the newspaper reported Clarion.
According to local media, the measure will be published tonight in the Trans-Andean Official Gazette, and it is an administrative decision of the Chief of Cabinet.
The determination is added to the one that governs England and Northern Ireland.
The main objective of the neighboring authorities is to prevent the arrival of the new variants from Manaus, Brazil, and the one detected in South Africa.
Today the Chilean Ministry of Health confirmed that 45 cases of the Brazilian variant have been detected.
Meanwhile, the trans-Andean country decided not apply the same measure with travel from the United States.
In addition, those who travel to Argentina must make a test before boarding the plane, then another, once they step on territory trans-Andean, and a third on the seventh day having entered that country; all will have to be covered by the passenger, complements Infobae.
Those who test positive for the coronavirus will have to undergo another test of genomic sequencing. And along with their close contacts, they will have to comply with isolation where indicated by the authorities, and that will also be in charge of the traveler, until their safe transfer to the residence, if applicable.
Those who test negative must comply with a 10-day quarantine, which will be monitored.
ADD 2.27 MILLION CASES AND OVER 55 THOUSAND DEATHS
Argentina registered 8,238 new cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus this Thursday, with which the total number of positives rose to 2,278,115, while deaths amounted to 55,092, after 146 deaths were confirmed in the last 24 hours.
This is 62 cases less than on Wednesday, when there were 8,300 positives.
According to the daily report of the Argentine Ministry of Health, there are 2,056,472 patients who have already been discharged, while 3,585 people with a confirmed diagnosis of Covid-19 remain admitted to intensive care units.
The percentage of occupancy of intensive care beds for all types of pathologies is 54.9% nationwide, but 57.8% if only Buenos Aires and its populous periphery are considered.
The country, with a population of about 45 million inhabitants, began its vaccination campaign against Covid-19 at the end of last December and already has received 4,380,540 doses of vaccines from various providers.
The set is made up of 2,800,540 doses of the Russian Sputnik V; 580,000 doses of the Covishield, developed by the University of Oxford and the AstraZeneca laboratory and produced by the Serum Institute laboratory of India; and a million doses of the Chinese vaccine Sinopharm, prepared that this same Thursday was authorized by the Argentine authorities to be injected in people over 60 years of age.
According to official data released this Thursday, so far there have been applied 3,446,433 doses: a total of 2,800,242 people received the first dose of the vaccine, while 646,191 people were already inoculated with the second dose
